A culture of gratitude requires a humility that is often difficult for individuals to muster. When I think as to the gratitude I’ve heard expressed at the dinner table, our gratitude is limited to our own self-centered perceptions of the world: family, home, friends. While these are all of course valid things to deserve gratitude, we forget the scope of our blessings. We take nature and its blessings, or our “mutual allegiance” for granted. Nature provides us with countless blessings and provisions that humankind often fails to truly understand, because we have been blessed with an abundance…