Tuesday, July 10, 2018
My sincere condolences to the family. As John’s next door neighbor for 15 years, I enjoyed many long conversations with him about everything from chemistry to career to wildflowers. He was a very knowledgeable man, and I always learned something from him. He knew every flower and every tree in nature, it seemed, and while sometimes his yard seemed chaotic, he showed me how nature can be a teeming web of beauty to be enjoyed. He was a friend of the earth.