The language of plants …

I think now that it was a longing to comprehend the language I hear in the woods that led me to science, to learn over the years to speak fluent botany. A tongue that should not, by the way, be mistaken for the language of plants. 

Robin Wall Kimmerer,  Braiding Sweetgrass. Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants  (Minneapolis 2013)