In an age saturated with information, we tend to think of “texts” as things produced by human beings: books, reports, theories, screens filled with data. Yet the cultural historian and ecological thinker Thomas Berry suggested something far more radical. Long before the first human inscription on clay or parchment, he wrote, there existed another text: the Earth itself. Mountains, rivers, forests, insects, birds, soils and stars. Together these form what Berry called the “primary text”.