In speaking to them of God, Francis liberates them from this destiny, returns them to the absolute, from which everything escaped as from an open bird cage.
He speaks to the swallows and converses with the wolves. He enters into union with the rocks and organizes conferences with the trees. He talks with the whole universe, for in love everything has the power of speech. Everything is endowed with meaning in his crazy love.
— Christian Bobin, The Very Lowly