And here lies the crux of the matter: to say that nature is personal may mean not so much seeing the world differently as acting differently—or, to state it another way, it may mean interacting with more-than-human others in nature as if those others had a life of their own and then coming to see, through experience, that these others are living, interacting beings.

~ Ursula K. LeGuin

Bird of Paradise – photo by Kagenmi, bigstockphoto.com