Language provides a great insight into the values of a particular culture or group of individuals because it has evolved to suit the ideas and the needs of the people employing it. While it changes somewhat in response to their experiences, it also helps to shape their experiences. Traditionally, oral cultures have had an intimate relationship with the natural world and the forces, both animate and inanimate, behind natural phenomena. They understood that we have a close connection with the forces around us, and we depend upon them to continue our everyday life of constant perceptual experiences. However, the way that language is used today by people and society has unfortunately worked to separate us from the natural world, from our own perceptual experiences, and led to the highly tenuous relationship that we currently have with nature: we assume our superiority over it and ignore the fundamental inextricable involvement we have with the natural world.