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What does it mean?
Describing someone or something as rich in natural gifts or products.
In plain terms
Full of natural gifts.
What can you take from it?
Nature provides abundance.

Where it applies

  • description
  • nature

Putting it to work

  • appreciation
  • observation

Questions to consider

  • What counts as spoils?
  • How is nature rich?

Another view

It is very vague without context.

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