“How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul.”

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

“We worship…the powers that speak to our souls, if it seems they do. We do so knowing there is more to the world, and the half-world, and perhaps worlds beyond, than we can grasp. We always knew that. We can’t even stop children from dying, how would we presume to understand the truth of things? Behind things? Does the presence of one power deny another? [p. 176]”

“I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.”

“The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.”

“Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ”