One reason you should never ignore setting

While copy editing at work, I came across a quote by Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) that hits on something important about the intersection of setting and character.
After all anybody is as theirland and air is. Anybodyis as the sky is low or high,the air heavy or cleanand anybody is as thereis wind or no wind there.It is that which makes themand the arts they makeand the work they doand the way they eatand the way they drinkand the way they learnand everything.

--Gertrude Stein,“An American and Fr...