The French poet Lamartine asked whether inanimate objects have a soul. I would say yes. The Vietnamese composer Trinh Cong Son said, "Tomorrow even rocks and pebbles will need each other." How do we know that rocks do not suffer? After the atomic bomb fell on Hiroshima, the rocks in the parks there were dead, and the Japanese carried them away and brought in living rocks.

Thich Nhat Hanh, Cultivating the Mind of Love