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"Everyone here is still buzzing about how much they enjoyed your lecture and the day in general. I was so impressed with your spin on "design", great presentation. " (about The Botany of Design) |
"I enjoyed your presentation immensely. The analogies you use to explain complicated ecological processes are so clear and helpful." (about Ecological Communities presentation) |
"Bring Bill back in a year for his talk on how species have migrated and often been marooned as climate has changed. This sounds academically boring, but absolutely captured his audience of rock gardeners at a conference I attended. One example he gave was why the North American shortia is doomed in the wild having ended in a dead-end as it followed its moving ideal climate ." (about Unravelling and Re-ravelling the Web of Life) |
*"Thank you for your presentation ... Every time I hear you, I learn a little more and gain a deeper appreciation for our natural world. Yesterday, I brought a couple of my crew members to the lecture. One of them is not a book kind of guy so I was a little nervous that he wouldn't make it through the day. I'm thinking the words auxin and gibberellin and a few data graphs might scare him off. Well, you should have heard him rant and rave over your lecture. "Those photographs were so cool!" "This guy is awesome!".... etc. etc. He actually took notes, which surprised me! I think you may have inspired him to go to school to learn horticulture. How you translate complex subjects into simple, absorbable learning chunks is truly amazing!" (about Sugar Sex and Poison) |