Think of a small part of nature you love—a tree, a river, a mountain. Does it fills you with joy, peace, and strength? Imagine sending that back to the earth as a gift. Now imagine it sending you love back. How does that shift your perspective on interconnectedness? How would it change your perspective of the natural world to know it was also aware of you?
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My husband and I live on a sailboat in an isolated bay in Panama. Every day, I hear howler monkeys and various bird calls drifting through the air from the mangroves. As I gaze out onto these beautiful trees that hold so much life above and below the water, I am filled with awe and joy! Each time I paddle through the mangroves, looking at the intricate root system, I am more aware of the interconnectedness of everything. I love nature, and I am grateful for this experience because I reflect on my interactions with the land and sea around me on a deeper level. I am the mangroves, and the mangroves are me.
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I interact with the natural world as if it is also aware of me because I feel that it is. This perspective makes me feel very held and supported, I feel like I’m surrounded by grounded and loving beings. When I’m directly connecting with the earth, I’m clearly seeing my role in it and that nature and me are simply not separate. It’s something that long ago, or in some cultures, was obvious, but today needs to be nurtured intentionally. 
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I do a meditation walk everyday along a rock lined labrynth/maze within 5 acres of my home, feeding , listening to the birds following me; many times chanting mantras, or just watching as nature goes about it’s business around me and I am so grateful for Being Here Now 
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I think that concept exists in general towards such an end, to effectively bridge the gap between beings…from some perspectives there’s some sense that the only way to tend to relationships whatsoever is to tend devotionally to Source…the only way to truly touch others as they are is probably to approach them from a place of sublime grace/respect…a place of “truth”… and that that comes to unwittingly day in and out is miraculous, but is absolutely everything to be able to do as a matter of will…
For example (in regards to concept bridging the gap) it has been suggested as hypothesis that plant life forms can communicate with one another somehow through the use of dmt, as well as divulged that human beings naturally have a baseline of dmt naturally occurring within their bodies, as well as receptors that are familiar with the stuff… which as an equation seems to be reducible not to an advocation of the human ingestion of external dmt so much as it could explain how at the unconscious level we are intimately aware of the fine details of the environments which surround us… our receptors could be in dialogue with trees and who knows what at all moments at some latent level, transferring and receiving data and stuff…sensibility, once one has actively cultivated a sense of a common nature, may simply be…a most perfect plan towards harmony/coexistence…
Fortunately, the original frameworks of the psyche seem to flow seamlessly with what Oriental spirituality posits as eternally true, that we are total beings, one with the entirety of the cosmos at some latent level… practice is about the effective/skillful conscious recognition of as much…practices such as these!