“The animals and living places, the trees and sky… they know each other… but have no names. No words. Just relation in and as lived intimacy. Perhaps we might practice ‘knowing’ without words or names. Just the relation-intimacy. Recognition without verbal assertion or association. Could it be that naming, rather than asserting recognition, is a way of avoiding its deep natures? I suspect so. When the world and its participants become nameless, we are free of a structured trap that, once familiar, becomes habitual. We will not get rid of language, but we may be able to re-establish more intelligent relationships with these frameworks, and their hidden benefits… and dangers.”

— an anonymous informant