Quotes About Appreciation

The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.

If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy become.

A gift comes to you through no action of your own, free, having moved toward you without your beckoning. It is not a reward; you cannot earn it, or call it to you, or even deserve it. And yet it appears. Your only role is to be open-eyed and present. Gifts exist in a realm of humility and mystery—as with random acts of kindness, we do not know their source.

That is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage.

What would it be like, I wondered, to live with that heightened sensitivity to the lives given for ours? To consider the tree in the Kleenex, the algae in the toothpaste, the oaks in the floor, the grapes in the wine; to follow back the thread of life in everything and pay it respect?

This is the fundamental nature of gifts: they move, and their value increases with their passage. The fields made a gift of berries to us and we made a gift of them to our father. The more something is shared, the greater its value becomes.

The listeners reciprocate the gift of the speaker's words with their attention

Imagine raising children in a culture in which gratitude is the first priority.

appreciation begets abundance.

But when you feel that the earth loves you in return, that feeling transforms the relationship from a one-way street into a sacred bond.

The world is more than your thoughtless commute.

If you don't give it respect it will leave us

The question of goldenrod and aster was of course just emblematic of what I really wanted to know. It was an architecture of relationships, of connections that I yearned to understand. I wanted to see the shimmering threads that hold it all together. And I wanted to know why we love the world, why the most ordinary scrap of meadow can rock us back on our heels in awe.

It's such a simple thing, but we all know the power of gratitude to incite a cycle of reciprocity

The students all demonstrated a deep respect and affection for nature.

You wouldn't harm what gives you love.

celebrate my freedom rather than mourn my loss.

Individuality is cherished and nurtured

The sunrise ceremony is our Potawatomi way of sending gratitude into the world, to recognize all that we are given and to offer our choicest thanks in return.

we are rooted in cultures of gratitude.

We know that appreciation begets abundance.

I open the cupboard, a likely place for gifts. I think, "I greet you, jar of jam. You glass who once was sand upon the beach, washed back and forth and bathed in foam and seagull cries, but who are formed into a glass until you once again return to the sea. And you, berries, plump in your June-ness, now in my February pantry. And you, sugar, so far from your Caribbean home—thanks for making the trip.

It was a kind of respect, a kind of thanks. On a beautiful summer morning, I suppose you could call it joy.

objects . . . will remain plentiful because they are treated as gifts.