calliope

“Fifty thousand years ago, an elk was struck by lightning and lived. The ache of it stayed in her bones the rest of her life. There was no human there to see it or record it in words, yet it’s just as much a part of earth’s essential history as any song lingering in a billion human minds. So why should we think of language as the lifeblood of knowledge or the currency of legitimate existence?”
― Jarod K. Anderson, Something in the Woods Loves You