Beings meeting us in nature
Buber says we can stand in I-Thou relation “with beings and things which come to meet us in nature”, (pp 124-5). Some original peoples of North America hold that non-human animals and plants are persons and deserve to be met as such (e.g. Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, p 56: “know the world as a neighborhood of nonhuman residents.” This one is “Someone, not something.”) Might the latter enrich the former? More specifically, are words necessary for conversation, or even for meeting?
:- Doug.
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