A new depth of reality and experience will be discovered when inanimate objects are treated as personalities rather than as mere objects. Actually, there is no such thing as an inanimate object.
Life is everywhere, in the trees, clouds, rocks, earth, and sky.
We are not taught to communicate silently with nature. The psychometric sense is one of the inner senses everyone possesses. And we keep receiving thoughts all through the night, even as we sleep. Because these thoughts that we receive are not aggressive, but passive. They come gently to us.