He was a huge influence on my life. After taking both his Botany 101 and his Plants for Man 203 classes my outlook on the world as I learned what as a species we were doing to our environment. Because of what he taught, I joined the Iowa Public Interest Research Group and began my political activism after taking his classes. We need to change what we as a species are doing to the environment or become extinct like the dinosaurs. Thank you Dr. Embree for showing me the truth.