Appreciating Creation

The natural world around me is fascinating to me. I find the smallest detail on a fallen leaf intriguing along with the contours of the largest mountains. I believe in a Divine Hand guiding the formation of the world and the creation of all the living things on land and in the sea.
D&C section 59 contains insight and counsel on appreciating the created world around us. At the end of the section the revelation states that God isn't offended except by those who "confess not His Hand in all things, and obey not His commandments." Recognizing the Hand of God in the food we eat, the sunsets we see, the gardens we grow, and the trees we cut is an important action to worshiping Him. God created the world not for our abuse and neglect and love of destroying. A key theme to D&C 59 seems to be cheerfulness and rejoicing. When we use anything from the fulness of the earth, the Lord is pleased as long as we do so with thankfulness and "with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion" (vs. 20). I believe anybody with a sensitive conscience does have a good sense of when they are wasting food, unnecessarily killing some living thing, or using some resource in excess or by extortion.
The early saints were in a situation where much of this revelation was actually quite radical. As the U.S. expanded West most everyone never had the thought cross their mind that they could run out of trees or the seas of bison or the seemingly endless tracts of land. They used what they wanted or whatever they had, slashing, burning, planting and moving on. So many settlers slaughtered the bison as a sport and didn't respect or show gratitude for the land and its resources. In this respect, the early Saints began to be set-apart in yet another aspect of their lives as they learned through this revelation and perhaps others the need to use resources in moderation according to their needs and with gratefulness. Mormons became different from the mainstream thought earlier than most in this respect, similar to how they became different from the mainstream customs of drinking alcohol/hot drinks and smoking (due to the Word of Wisdom - D&C 89).
Lastly, on this idea of truly appreciating Creation, D&C 59 reveals that the fulness of the earth is for our use! All of it. All types of meat, all types of animlas, all types of herbs and other "good things which come of th earth" (vs. 16-17). And one thing I think is really important to understand on top of this is in vs 18-19, after the Lord essentially says all things are for our good use: "Yea, all things which come of the earth, in the season thereof, are made for the benefit and the use of man, both to please the eye and to gladden the heart; Yea, for food and for raiment, for taste and for smell, to strengthen the body and to enliven the soul." In other words, there is nothing wrong with planting beautiful flowers in our yards to make the yards pleasing to the eye, or putting a flower in someone's hair (uh, girls only please), or trying to look good and not just be all about everything functional. Spices for better taste and diverse foods and things that just enliven the soul are there for our use and enjoyment. I believe God wants me to not live so plainly that I don't truly appreciate this incredibly diverse and beautiful world He has created. God is pleased by our use of all these things, as long as we recognize His Hand through gratitude and as long as we use them with judgement and moderation.