David G Haskell

@dghaskell.bsky.social

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Writer, biologist 🌻How Flowers Made our World, now in bookstores! Sounds Wild and Broken 13 Ways to Smell a Tree The Songs of Trees The Forest Unseen

photo of book cover with large pink orchid and book's title, How Flowers Made our World, underneath New York Times Book Review header
Quote from WSJ review “exuberant prose engages all our senses, beckoning us, the way a flower would a curious bee, into a world of hidden wonders”
Bell shaped purple flower with red nectar at base
Image with creamy columbine flower pointing down, text at top says Emergence Magazine, then underneath reads Wildflower Beauty and the Search for Home
Tiny white flower with 4 petals and red blob like leaves
Pinkish red flowers in clay flower pot, held by man in front of wooden fence
Narrator stands in front of perfume bottles in airport duty-free. First, perfume bottles that have lots of flowers and images of women. Next, perfume labeled for men with images of wood
Man with glasses and burgundy sweatshirt leans into a large black microphone, waving his right hand as he speaks
Guy in purple shirt holds up a little vase containing a single stalk of daffodils. The flowers are very small, with white petals and a yellow center. He holds them and sniffs them, smiling at the aroma
A jagged v of ghostly white gray birds flying across a clear blue sky, with the branches and twigs of an oak tree in the foreground
Dude in a blue hat squints into the Sun.He is holding up a large rosette of dark green leaves, a tatsoi plant. He starts the video by biting off a leaf, then just looks at the camera and yammers
Cactus in flower pot with narrator sitting behind
Doors 10:30am, talk 11am Oda, 295 R 8th St, New York, NY 10009
dragonfly on concrete. green head, bright blue abdomen
White bowl with purple and green grapes
Large pink orchid in center of book cover with text: How Flowers Made Our World. The story of nature's revolutionaries. David George Haskell