Names.

Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He knew what it was like to miss someone. And so he listened. And in his listening, his heart opened wide and then wider still.

-Kate DiCamillo

Chapter XIV, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Floptop.

Deep in a tropical forest there once lived a funny looking little creature named Floptop. Actually, he wasn't called anything while he lived in his tropical forest. Hew was named Floptop later, when he left the forest and met humans. It's only people who give names to animals. It's people who told the elephant that he was an elephant, the giraffe that she was a giraffe, and the rabbits that they were rabbits. And so the little creature never gave a thought to what he was called, he just lived, and he lived in a faraway tropical forest. 

-Edward Upensky

-Chapter I, Crocodile Gene and his friends