Through language, humans bring out the full potentiality hidden in matter, advance the building of bird nests and beaver dams to architecture and engineering, the gathering of nuts to farming, squawks and barks to music, and limited animal perception to the intellectual jewels of modern Western culture… (essay by George Stanciu)
— Read on theimaginativeconservative.org/2019/02/speech-silence-george-stanciu.html

Long but very insightful.