Organizations play a vital role in societies across the world. Moreover, those that lead or are involved in organizations can benefit from a deeper understanding of organizations as it can help it to operate more effectively. Metaphor is literary device used for over thousands of years in which one thing is used to help describe or show similarities between another item. Organizational theory scholars have used metaphor as a creative way to elucidate organizational concepts, which at times are hard to understand. This article explores organizations through the metaphor of rainforest ecosystems. The article goes over the concept of metaphor and how it is a sound way to describe organizations. The article then lists and analyzes rain forest ecosystems characteristics that parallel those of organizations.