As Meg and I, Michael and Sara enjoyed the rainforest of Corcovado National Park and the cloud forest of Curi Cancha and Selvatura in the Monte Verde area, the birds of Costa Rica never ceased to astound and amaze us. This quotation from Dag Hammarskjold, UN Secretary General during the turbulent Cold War years of the late fifties, came to my mind:
“God does not die on the day we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.” Dag Hammarskjold, Markings
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| Scarlet_macaw, Corcovado_National_Park, Amaya_Family_cabins |
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| Corcovado_National_Park, Amaya_Family_cabins |
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| Corcovado_National_Park, Amaya_Family_cabins |
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| curi_cancha, Monte_Verde |
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| curi_cancha, Monte_Verde |
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| curi_cancha, Monte_Verde |
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| blurred flight of a Quetzal, Monte_Verde, Selvatura |
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| Monte_Verde, Selvatura |
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| Toucan, Corcovado_National_Park, Amaya_Family_cabins |
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| Corcovado_National_Park, Amaya_Family_cabins |
Wow! You actually got to see a quetzal in flight! Fantastic!