Nature Needs A New Pronoun

Singing whales, talking trees, dancing bees, birds who make art, fish who navigate, plants who learn and remember. We are surrounded by intelligences other than our own, by feathered people and people with leaves. But we've forgotten. There are many forces arrayed to help us forget -- even the language we speak.

http://www.dailygood.org/story/1046/nature-needs-a-new-pronoun-to-stop-the-age-of-extinction-let-s-start-by-ditching-it-robin-wall-kimmerer/