“In certain areas in Costa Rica where the earth is of poor quality, the trees themselves have created a lush and fertile hanging garden that, at about forty feet in the air, is known as the “cloud forest.” Here, hanging from tree to tree for miles around, vegetation grows thick in deep layers that support a fertile garden of unique and unusual flora, plant, fowl, reptilian, and animal life that may never touch the outside earth itself. Here exists the world’s only butterfly with transparent wings, so upon observing you may see only a crawling insect until it flies away. Here, and only here, lives the golden frog, for it has taken countless centuries to develop so that it lives not in ponds or streams upon the ground, but in the wide leaf plants high in the trees that collect the proper amount of water to allow it a place to lay eggs; and only in that proper temperature and the proper dampness can this creature exist. If things were to alter even slightly, such as an unusual change in seasonal temperature or rainfall amount, many species would disappear forever.”
This is like a garden I know, where the ‘trees’ support a lush fertile hanging ‘cloud forest.’ If it weren’t for these ‘trees’, the music would most likely be lost.
Blissly Blithe 