One-month-old arctic foxes (Photo: Xinhua)

"I breathe in the green grass

and in the flowers, and in the living waters . . .

All these live and do not die because I am in them . . .

I am the source of the thundered word

by which all creatures were made,

I permeate all things that they may not die.

I am life."

~Hildegarde von Bingen