Regardless if it resembles any shred of sense or not, I commune with the other beasts and the plants or even qualities of the environment itself. I frequently speak to them when I am attending to them and inquire of them or just in passing. At times they respond in their own way, the latter two, as the former are obviously far less vocal and forward. But it is a trait of mine to go so far as replace a stone I displaced or to shake free branches that are bowed with snow in hopes that it is appreciated.