Smit describedextreme political views as the roar of people fearful that they cannot control the future but he said they would fade when people realised that good things were around the corner. When people see that some of that future is going to be amazing, they'll cease to want to control it in quite the same way, he said. It's like people going out for a stag night and feeling stupid the following day, he said.
He understood the power to empower people to embrace ideas gifted to us by nature. His creative vision for Eden was inspired by a handful of soap bubbles as biomes, to inspire the team to create the most elegant solution to address design challenges. They fit so well in the landscape that it is sometimes hard to know where landscape stops and buildings start. Without him there would be no Eden Project biomes,
