The world has never been silent.
Field Notes
For most of human history, we have treated language as something that belongs to us alone. Yet every landscape is filled with voices. Geese call across water. Trees release chemical warnings. Whales carry messages for miles through the sea. Even the wind through grass contains information for those who know how to listen.
Perhaps the question is not whether the world is speaking. The question is whether we have remembered how to hear it.
For a brief moment, a child laughs at the sound of a goose calling from the shoreline. Neither understands the other’s language. Yet something still passes between them: attention. Curiosity. Recognition.
The conversation was already happening. She simply joined it for a moment.