“The calls of birds and the traces left by wolves to mark off their territories are no less forms of language than the sings of humans. What is distinctively human is not the capacity for language. It is the crystallisation of language in writing.”
john gray
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
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