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2007-11-05 22:30:34 · 13 answers · asked by temerson 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Are you not grateful to have legs?
2007-11-05 22:44:16 · update #1
I spend most of my free time in nature and am constantly amazed. I am a very serious birder. I have done trips all over North America, some travel in Latin America and Europe. The world is an incredible place, full of biological and geological diversity. Even though I am an atheist, I do feel a sense of something akin to gratitude. I certainly feel appreciation.
2007-11-05 22:42:53 · answer #1 · answered by in a handbasket 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yes; especially in unspoiled, older-growth areas.
Yes, I'm grateful, and not just in nature, either. But it's very easy to feel grateful when I'm out in the woods.
However, I also feel many other things. Nature can be "red in tooth and claw" and so there are occasionally times when the awe takes on shades of horror. Consider the impacts of invasive species, for example.
I've included an article below about the impacts of two invasive species in the state I live in. Invading Zebra Mussels and the Round Goby fish have caused hundreds of thousands of fish-eating bird deaths in the past several years due to botulism poisoning. I sure don't feel grateful for that.
2007-11-06 06:51:09 · answer #2 · answered by kriosalysia 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm constantly awed by nature. I'm part of it. I don't understand being grateful. Its like asking if you are grateful humans have legs.
2007-11-06 06:39:34 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I suppose, and I'm somewhat grateful (rhetorically) for being able to experience it.
Not sure who I'm supposed to be grateful for for my legs, obviously I don't presume to owe a debt to a creator beyond my parents.
2007-11-06 10:07:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely, nothing like spending a day climbing a mountain with my daughter and looking down on our planet. Simply amazing.
2007-11-06 06:38:58 · answer #5 · answered by The Lorax 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Um, I live in the city. However whenever I am in a place that has trees not bought from Home Depot, it is quite nice.
2007-11-06 19:33:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occasional awe, yes, but grateful to who/what?
2007-11-06 06:35:01 · answer #7 · answered by Zombie 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not as much as I would want. The world is being slowly destroyed and the rate increases more and more by the day.
2007-11-06 06:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
i find it entirely remarkable that all around in natural enviorenments one sees a balance that has expanded and harmonised for billions of years,,, I am in awe that we have the power now to allow that balance to continue to evolve, or not!
2007-11-06 06:40:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
totally. when i look at what Evolution gave us, it warms my heart.
2007-11-06 06:39:48 · answer #10 · answered by Claudia 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋