This is true because people use their environment to assist them with daily need and tasks, in which people would have to make their environment suit them. For example, nowadays we have houses, we made our environment suit us by making houses for shelter. Furthermore, we have schools. We used our environments to suit us, so that people can get their correct education.
The external borders of the Empire did not change noticeably from the Peace of Westphalia – which acknowledged the exclusion of Switzerland and the Northern Netherlands, and the French protectorate over Alsace – to the dissolution of the Empire