Because it is boring when not being creative.

Creativity is the backbone of simplicity. In it's basic form say you need a container for your idea for an indoor herb garden. You could hop on amazon or head to a your local big box store and buy some factory made, cheap craftsmanship container for a trendy indoor herb garden. OR you could find items around your house, scrap wood, unused containers and put together your own functional and grow your herbs!

I see gratitude as a virtue. It is cultivated by mindfulness and peaceful living. This is a challenge in our world. People are driven to acquire worldly things that do nothing but wreck the planet with waste, consumerism, corporate greed... the list goes on. So, embracing the virtue of gratitude can be cultivated by letting go.

Balance is vital to sustainability. Examples of imbalance would be horrid factory "farms" versus finding the beautiful symbiosis of small local ecologically minded farms that work with the land and all that is within it. Balance is also found in sourcing our meals from food sources grown locally and seasonally. The earth when cared for provides for all our needs.