"When you know the fourfoil in all its seasons root and leaf and flower, by sight and scent and seed, then you may learn its true name, knowing its being: which is more than its use. What, after all, is the use of you? Or of myself? Is Gont Mountain useful, or the Open Sea?" Ogion went on a halfmile or so, and said at last "To hear, one must be silent."

The Earthsea Quartet, Ursula Le Guin