We humans often find value in other living things only when we see a profit for ourselves. We fail to recognize the value of a thing to itself or other living things.

The cholla (choy-ya) cactus is one of these outcasts. If we could ask the desert woodrat or the cactus wren how they value the cholla, undoubtedly they would have an eye-opening perspective to share.

Joshua Tree Interpretive Sign

If you want to know my truth, let me tell it to you in my words, in the diction and syntax natural to me.

George Saunders, Swim In Pond In Rain