What is an accurate meaning of this quote?

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"If you talk to the animals they will talk with you

and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them

you will not know them, and what you do not know

you will fear. What one fears one destroys."

If you do not try to understand someone or something, you will outcast it and treat it poorly, based on not knowing what it is or what it is capable of, and going off of what other people tell you. Your fear is irrational, and you fear things you don't understand, or know the answer to. Education and understanding are important.