Everything was possessed of personality, only differing from us in form. Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library and its books were the stones, leaves, grass, brooks, and the birds and animals that shared, alike with us, the storms and blessings of earth.

~ Luther Standing Bear, Oglala Lakota Sioux

Bison, Firehole River, Yellowstone National Park – photo by Sue Smith, bigstockphoto.com