What if we realized that we are, quite often, being spoken to? What if we believed our fellow species—the plants, the animals, the fungi, the microbes, and even the planet herself—are possibly seeking something similar? To be sensed for who they are, to be heard, to be known, to be seen? What if we leaned in and felt how the world is brimming with reciprocal sensation; what if we learned the languages that are already fruiting and bleeding out around us; what if we knew that all sorts of ears are always perked and twitching, that around us are a million noses inhaling pheromone vapors and
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