What differentiates resource from the gift of nature?

Everything that nature gives us is a gift. But when that gift becomes a useful thing for a human, it is a resource. But still, there are many resources whose utility has not been discovered. Some of the gifts of nature that have been used as a resource by humans from a very long time. Like fossil fuels, water, wind, sunlight, forests, animals, minerals, valuable metals, and tides for electricity production are some of them. Human needs differentiate the resources from nature’s gift.