"When we consume food, we make a connection with nature, but this
connection can happen in different ways. If you take an apple,
peel it with a knife, cut it into pieces and eat it, you have a
particular sensation. If you bite into the apple, you have a
different sensation.

Now, go into an orchard, pull the branch of an apple tree toward
you, and start biting into an apple without picking it; it is
different again - you feel how alive this fruit is, and you have
a sense of fulfilment, of joy, which the tree itself is imparting
to you, because it is connected to earth and heaven and is
drawing forces from both. While you are eating, you are in direct
contact with a current of pure energy. Through the medium of its
fruit, the tree has put you directly in touch with the universe."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov