"You'll understand this when you see a sloth's clawed arm tumble heavily down out of a tree, and look up the tall trunk into his face; when you see the long emerald tail feathers of a quetzal stream out behind him as he flies; when you stare up into the hollow belly of an enormous, gnarled strangler fig tree that took four hundred years to be created... You'll find yourself trying to articulate how you feel in these moments, and the only words that will come to your mind will be the only appropriate ones-pura vida. Pure life."

-- Sarah Ropp