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User:bezigebij (4614623)
Biting off the matter with a smile
Name:Bezige Bij
Location:Netherlands
Birthdate:1976-10-07
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Bio:Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty...a useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place. He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and the poet.

- Vita Sackville-West



The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do one thing every day that scares you.

- again, Eleanor Roosevelt

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung, and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be
broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.


-C.S. Lewis

Once you begin to take yourself seriously as a leader or as a follower, as a modern or as a conservative, then you become a self-conscious, biting, and scratching little animal whose work is not of the slightest value or importance to anybody.

- Virginia Woolf


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Bezige Bij? What's that all about?

Memories:3 entries
Interests:111: agnosticism, allium, amersfoort, amsterdam, angelica gigas, annie m.g. schmidt, architecture, authenticity, avid gardeners, ayn rand, baths, bees, beth chatto, books, bookstores, botanical latin, botany, charles linnaeus, children's literature, daydreaming, deschampsia, design, dr. seuss, dutch, education, entomology, eupatorium, euphorbia, fair haven, fennel, ferns, fiep westendorp, flowers, foliage, gandhi, garden design, gardening, gardening fanatics, gardens, gertrude jekyll, gin and tonics, heather fields, hiking, holland, ice cream, jens jensen, landscape architecture, landscape design, laughing, lemons, limes, linnaeus, martha schwartz, mary oliver, miscanthus, modernism, modernist literature, molinia, mushrooms, mycology, nederland, nederlands, netherlands, new jersey, new urbanism, new york, onderwijs, open-mindedness, ornamental grasses, oudolf, outdoors, peonies, perennials, piet oudolf, plant geeks, plant identification, plant names, plants, red bank, roald dahl, running, sanguisorba, sapiosexuality, science, shel silverstein, simplicity, sissinghurst, sprookjes, stained glass, stedenbouwkunde, sustainability, sustainable development, swings, taxonomy, thalictrum, the genius of place, the woods, thinking for oneself, tom robbins, topher delaney, trees, tuinen, tuinieren, urban design, urban planning, utrecht, viburnum, virginia woolf, vita sackville-west, wanderlust, words
Schools:Knollwood School - Fair Haven, NJ
Viola L. Sickles School - Fair Haven, NJ
Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School - Rumson, NJ (1990 - 1994)
Delaware Valley College - Doylestown, PA (1994 - 1998)
Hogeschool Larenstein - Velp, Gelderland, Netherlands (2000 - 2002)
Hogeschool Utrecht - Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands (2003 - 2005)
Friends:
People71:1spirit, _lethe_, abigailvr, abitblue, ankie, astrelsa, awyman, babycoreopsis, bellastagiona, bezigebij, bezigereader, bixa, bjacques, blowtorch_betty, by_steph, calypso72, carlinos, coco_keesses, congogirl, connaissent, djinnthespazz, ehy2k, ellettra, evolwhisper, frumiousb, girlinthemoon, goudsekaas, gracie_o, greenshadows, h2ogirl54, idahoswede, ilona, iolanthe_rosa, jaarronn, jackiejj, jelapa, keshya, ladycoreopsis, ladysmantle, lizardek, logpoes, lucers, metamorpheus, misguided_soul, mwana_isimu, myriverbed, nikkyb, niyabinghi, nlmelley, palebythesea, pandora1017, pieces2puzzle, poodler, prestonclan, rudbekia, saanen, sheenabizarre, silly_narziss, sinnamongirl, skyforest, smittenbyu, subpolka, swingingclogs, tealight_rookie, thefer, thisblankpine, thisc0rrosion, toomai, veeeyloova, wavebreaker, wyliekat
Communities7:landscapers, lj_maintenance, modern_dwelling, news, poppiespoppies, saucydwellings, saucygardens
Feeds1:ec_gardens
Friend of:133: 1spirit, 68024, _lethe_, _viridian_, a1, abigailvr, abitblue, allisburning, almostangelic, ankie, ardis, astrelsa, awyman, babycoreopsis, barkingcat, before_moonrise, beingfrank, bellaschlager, bellastagiona, bezigebij, bezigereader, bixa, bjacques, blowtorch_betty, blueberrymoon, bondas, brokenfrench, bummble, by_steph, calypso72, carlinos, coco_keesses, congogirl, connaissent, cottontimer, damnqueerfuck, dandylionkats, db1000, djinnthespazz, ehy2k, elemmennope, elfkat, ellettra, entropica, evolwhisper, exileinsuburbia, fairouz, flasher_, frumiousb, girlinthemoon, goudsekaas, gracie_o, greenshadows, gypsy_soul, h2ogirl54, herlittledream, idahoswede, ilona, iolanthe_rosa, j_d_miranda, jaarronn, jackiejj, jelapa, jenmcd, jessalynn14, joeysplanting, joy_joy, justagarden, kees_s, keshya, ladycoreopsis, ladysmantle, lizardek, logpoes, lucers, maan, mananath, martianmoons, martinek, metamorpheus, misguided_soul, mussare, mwana_isimu, myriverbed, nephthys224, nerdstroms, newwavesmash, nikkyb, niyabinghi, nlmelley, nyclife, nymphaion, palastdeutsch, palebythesea, pandora1017, peregrinekt, peterm_tx, pieces2puzzle, piggy_suckfish, poodler, prestonclan, prisionerofhope, prrrtalieloe, rudbekia, saanen, seaskyclay, serendipityone, sheenabizarre, sidewalkliving, silly_narziss, sinnamongirl, skyforest, smartlap, smittenbyu, straydogstudio, subpolka, swingingclogs, tamaraland, tealight_rookie, thefer, thinkzinc, thisblankpine, thisc0rrosion, toomai, treebreeze, valrhona, vaneramos, veeeyloova, voske, wakarusa, wanderingaengus, wavebreaker, wyliekat
Member of:20: bugme, domestic_snark, expats, gardening, gaygardeners, happy_feminists, horticulture, landscapers, livejardin, macro_pics, modern_dwelling, nederland, netherlands, organic_garden, poppiespoppies, saucycontents, saucydwellings, saucygardens, urbcomm, wildgardens
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