Words tend to bounce off nature as they try to deliver nature's language into the hands of another language foreign to it.

Theodor Adorno
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When words are spoken, they are always in the context of our culture. And, when other cultures speak to us, their words are always in the context of their culture. We might hear other languages being spoken but we cannot understand them because they are not being delivered into our language by nature. It is impossible to understand foreign languages without first understanding the language of nature.

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