Interrelational communication between humans and nonhumans is complex, yet when it comes to direct interaction between one and the other, artistic representations have often emphasized physical contact as a shared language. A common important plot moment in novels and film alike, for example, comes about when a human gently touches an animal, which causes an empathetic impact that then determines the narrative direction toward a climax that hangs on the consequences of the human to nonhuman interrelationship. My paper explores this desire to communicate between humans and nonhumans. Using examples from the Argentine poet Silvina Ocampo and her book about trees in Buenos Aires, I find that this desire is really the desire that our connections with the nonhuman have a shared meaning and that our love for the nonhuman determined by our direct contact with them.