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“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

— Henry Miller

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Arctic Foxes 'Grow' Their Own Gardens

The little carnivores' colorful dens provide veritable oases in the tundra, a new study says.

The underground homes, often a century old, are topped with gardens exploding with lush dune grass, diamondleaf willows, and yellow wildflowers—a flash of color in an otherwise gray landscape. 

“They’re bright green and everything around them is just brown,” says Brian Person, a wildlife biologist for the North Slope Borough in Barrow, Alaska. “It pops”…

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I can die happy now that I know this fact.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I am now picturing soft little foxes with watering cans and spades planting and tending to their Fox Gardens

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More from Occupy Portland

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The Uses of Sorrow "Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift."

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"It was the love of love, a love that swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of nature, of people and of animals, a love engendering gentleness & goodness that moved me and that I saw in you.

- William Carlos Williams

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