"Every language," wrote Wade Davis, "is an old-growth forest of the mind."

Languages that hold not only the living histories, memories and relationships of entire cultures but that tell of other ways of being in the world. Each lost language is a felled forest.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jan/07/cultural-identity-saving-worlds-endangered-languages-activists-online-tools-rohingya-igbo-angika