Twelve or more feet of annual rain nourishes Olympic’s temperate rain forests. Some say there is more life here per square foot than anywhere else on earth. It does seem that moss drapes, coats and carpets everything. Ferns, fungi and countless other plants and shrubs also grow with such verdure that tree seedlings must grow on the backs of nurse logs to survive. Browsing deer and elk keep it from becoming an impenetrable jungle. Life muffles life leaving room for only soft sounds and quiet thoughts.