Before we acquired (formally representational) language, it was of no consequence that the plants, places, and animals ‘didn’t speak our language’ for a simple reason: we were all constantly immersed the same -way of speaking- together.

After we acquired language, it was initially confusing that nothing else did. We sort of ‘expected them to talk’. Then, eventually, most of us acquired or generated ridiculous excuses for why other beings did not engage in this behavior.

Allow me to suggest that the plants, places, and animals find it just as disconcerting and confusing that we are attempting to use formal representational language to speak to them… as we do that they do not return the (insult?)

Formal representational language can be an asset; but it is not necessarily thus. In acquiring this skill, we have largely exchanged -a specific mode of speech- for -most ways of communicating-… and in this exchange our souls are largely (if not completely) obscured.

The other beings are (nearly completely) uninterested in exchanging -=direct immersion in being=- for talking. The only real answer to ‘why?’ is direct exposure to their living silence (or their divinely ‘nonlinguistic’ utterances).