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David George Haskell is a biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His books have twice been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, in 2012 for The Forest Unseen and in 2022 for Sounds Wild and Broken. His 2017 book, The Songs of Trees, won the John Burroughs Medal. Other literary honors include a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a two-time finalist for the PEN / E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and winner of the Acoustical Society of America's Science Communication Award, the National Academies' Best Book Award, the Iris Book Award, the Reed Environmental Writing Award, and the National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. He is a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim fellow, and adjunct professor of environmental sciences at Emory University. He was previously William R. Kenan Jr. Professor at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. Haskell lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Your past books have taken on a host of biological subjects: you followed a one-meter patch of forest through the seasons, illuminated complex networks in nature through the lives of trees, explored our planet's sonic diversity, and much more. What inspired you to turn to flowers for How Flowers Made Our World?
We live on a floral planet. Flowers changed the course of Earth's history, creating most modern habitats and catalyzing the evolution of humans. I wrote this book to share this extraordinary story, which I regard as the great untold tale of evolution. Even many biologists do not fully realize the revolutionary powers of flowers.
As in my other books, I interweave rich sensory observation with the latest scientific discoveries, aiming to enrich readers' own experiences of flowers and the living world. This book is a culmination of what I've learned as a biologist and writer over the last thirty years: that even though we often dismiss flowers as mere ornaments, flowers run our world, from building ecosystems, to spurring the diversity and vitality of animals, to being the foundations of human agriculture. I touch on these themes in all my previous books, but here I fully explore and celebrate floral creativity and ...
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