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How Flowers Made Our World and Heated Social Media Debates with David George Haskell (author of The Forest Unseen)

Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:42:18
Publish Date: 2026-05-07 13:10:00
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In this episode, we discuss the significant role flowers have played in creating our world, the biological reason we're attracted to flowers, women in horticultural, and David's inside pick (which is sort of an outside one).

About this week's guest: David George Haskell is a writer and biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. Haskell is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, for The Forest Unseen and Sounds Wild and Broken. He is recipient of an Award in Literature from American Academy of Arts and Letters. Haskell has also written essays and multimedia experiences for The New York Times, Emergence Magazine, and other venues. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is Adjunct Professor of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. Show notes!

This week's sponsor: The Working Garden Project How Flowers Made Our World

The Songs Of Trees

The Forest Unseen

Sounds Wild and Broken To advertise on the podcast: hello@baskergardens.com

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