The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.
But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.