> How many berries do we need to collect for each.
A handful for each.
> How big a foundation is needed for this building.
What building? You haven't even built the foundation yet.
And so on. You can do without numbers. And in fact people did all of the above without measuring quantities in any meaningful way in the history of humanity.
How many people are we? How many berries do we need to collect for each.
Later: How many seeds do we need to sow. How big a foundation is needed for this building… How many suns until the weather gets warmer again?
I suppose you could do without if you lived in a cave with endless food readily available outside.