It is well-known that in shamanism all over the world there is said to be a secret language of nature. The shaman is able to understand the speech of birds, animals, and even of stones — and is also able to speak to them. This archaic unity between humanity and nature reflects a primordial state that, in Christian terms, cannot be other than paradisal. Indeed, it was exactly this unity that was referred to when Adam gave the creatures of the earth their names in the Garden of Eden; those names were none other than the "secret language of nature" that marks the paradisal states in which the Logos can be recognized in all creative things.

Arthur Versliuis, TheoSophia