“If she thought of the labor and resources that went into each piece of fruit – the water, the light, the earth, the training and harvesting of each plant – a box of apples could be special, a sacred thing. Perhaps in this land of plenty, of myth and wide-open spaces, trucks and factories, mass production, we lost track of that: the miracle of an object as simple as a pear, nutritious and sweet, created by something as beautiful as a tree.”