Elemental spirits are beings who are consciousnesses of trees and rocks and so on. Everything in nature has a corresponding elemental spirit.
An elemental spirit is brought to light by the interaction of human consciousness with something in nature. For example by a human paying attention to a tree, a tree spirit is brought to light. Would the tree spirit have existed if a human had not payed attention to it? That's a question.
People have said that elemental spirits resemble humans, a tree spirit has human like characteristics. I don't know if that is true or not though. What is the purpose of humanity?
Humanity is a sort of midwife who was created in order to help bring to light the personality of nature. The light of human consciousness helps to animate tree spirits and rock spirits, creating a living community of beings in nature, all of whom have characteristics that are similar to humanity.
But it is not only natural things that have elemental spirits. Cars have consciousnesses too, as do computers. We can talk to everything as if it were a human, and by doing that what is talked to responds by projecting energy back at us that can be sensed on an intuitive level by us.
We can just talk in English to rocks and trees and so on because the words we say carry the emotional intent behind what we speak, the energy of what we say and our intentions is wrapped up in our words.