It was necessary in Paradise to give the animals names. It became necessary for us to do the same thing, they share our silence with us, and our love, and our connection to the earth.

I don’t disturb my solitude with thoughts of animals, but I do feel the silence that dwells in them. Animals in silence make silence real, they force us to think and feel in a different way.

To name them and their silence is to name their very beings, and is therefore an act of reverence.