The trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding 
titles: oak, aspen, willow. Or the snow, for which the peoples of the north
have dozens of words to describe its different arrivals. Or the creatures, with their thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their infallible sense of what their lives are meant to be…

~ Mary Oliver

Young Brown Bear in the Forest – photo by byrdyak, bigstockphoto.com