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Biting off the matter with a smile
Created on 2004-09-22 07:20:05 (#4614623), last updated 2009-07-03
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Basic Info| Name: | Bezige Bij |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 1976-10-07 |
| Location: | Netherlands |
BioFortunate 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
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
-Jane Jacobs
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Bezige Bij? What's that all about?
- 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
There is a quality even meaner than outright ugliness or disorder, and this meaner quality is the dishonest mask of pretended order, achieved by ignoring or suppressing the real order that is struggling to exist and to be served.
-Jane Jacobs
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Bezige Bij? What's that all about?
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allium, amsterdam, architecture, authenticity, avid gardeners, baths, beauty, bees, books, bookstores, botanical latin, children's literature, daydreaming, deschampsia, design, dr. seuss, dutch, eupatorium, euphorbia, fair haven, fennel, ferns, flowers, foliage, garden design, gardening, gardening fanatics, gardens, genius loci, gin and tonics, heather fields, hiking, holland, ice cream, jens jensen, landscape architecture, landscape design, laughing, lemons, limes, martha schwartz, mary oliver, miscanthus, modernism, modernist literature, molinia, nederland, nederlands, netherlands, new jersey, new urbanism, new york, open-mindedness, ornamental grasses, oudolf, outdoors, peonies, perennials, piet oudolf, plant geeks, plant identification, plant names, plants, red bank, running, sanguisorba, science, shel silverstein, simone de beauvoir, simplicity, sissinghurst, sprookjes, stedenbouwkunde, sustainability, sustainable development, swings, t.s. eliot, taxonomy, thalictrum, the genius of place, the woods, thinking for oneself, tom robbins, topher delaney, trees, truth, tuinen, tuinieren, urban design, urban planning, utrecht, viburnum, virginia woolf, vita sackville-west, walt whitman, wanderlust, words
External Services:
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Schools:
Knollwood School - Fair Haven, NJViola 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)
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