Thank you, Tony!

‘How Flowers Made Our World’ Review: The Blooms That Boomed Flowering plants have unique genetic advantages over other organisms. They are also crucial providers of the food we need to survive.

Here is the full review: www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

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”

Thank you, @chrisirmscher.bsky.social, for this review of How Flowers Made our World, in @wsj.com

Thomas essays are amazing, especially considering he wrote them in his spare time.

If you listen to the interview, the question was what books were influential. That book was influential for me as a teenager b4 college. In other interviews I've been accused of doing drive-by shootings on his work since I don't agree with his takes on biology, religion and other cultures ✌️

Interesting convergence though. Biology has moved beyond the idea of selfishness and individual genes being the foundational biological reality (like any science, ideas move on), but that book really woke my young self up to the incredible beauty of thinking about life in terms of evolution.

A joy to join Alan Alda to chat about flowers, scicomm, and why "weeds" give me confidence (com-fidere = trusting together). Also: Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek meets Richard Dawkins' Selfish Gene in an impressionable teenage mind
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Floral revolutionaries on the road: Seattle and Miami Beach friends, I'd love to see you at my upcoming events. Register here:
Seattle: www.elliottbaybook.com/events/50119
Miami Beach: shop.booksandbooks.com/event/2026-0...

Excited to do a bit of intellectual photosynthesis with new botanical books by a couple of the best writers in our field, @robertmoor.com and @dghaskell.bsky.social. 🌲 🌼 🌱

Thank you, @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social, for these generous words. Working on this book upended my experience of the world, and transformed how I think/feel about life's narratives. I'm so glad that some of this comes through in the book's pages. Revolutionaries for real.

Thank you, Richard! You are very generous. I'm very happy to hear that these, ahem, florid tales resonated for you, and that the immensity of their contributions to the living Earth comes through in the book's pages.

What a pleasure to be in conversation about flowers and their many meanings with Daphne Chouliaraki Milner in @atmosmag.bsky.social, with marvelous art by Max Attila Bartsch

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What an appalling headline and take. Perhaps the real news here is that NPR thanks the weird opinions of one economist are worth platforming. And that "we" needs to be used a little more carefully.

Bell shaped purple flower with red nectar at base

Blood red nectar. Attracts their pollinators, geckos, who love red dots on a purple background. Birds are also attracted and steal nectar.

Sanguineous allegories here we go

An endangered species from Mauritius, here at the amazing Missouri Botanical Garden

Nesocodon mauritianus (Campanulaceae)

“If our descendants are still around in 100 million years, I predict that they will be flower people. They will have figured out how to work in deep cooperation with flowering plants so that they and the rest of the ecosystem can thrive.”

David Haskell's new book, How Flowers Made Our World, is a great read anytime of year, but especially for spring. Highly recommended if you're into gardening, plants, Earth history and/or the weirdness of life 🌎 🧪

Thank you, Jennifer!

Why Protecting Flowering Plants Is Crucial to Our Future In his latest book, biologist David George Haskell describes flowering plants as “world creators.” In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he explains how they spurred the evolution of new ecosyste...

I had a great conversation with @jenniferweeks83.bsky.social about floral creativity, now published in edited version at @yalee360.bsky.social
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It's almost like leaving the EU was a bad idea all around

Image with creamy columbine flower pointing down, text at top says Emergence Magazine, then underneath reads Wildflower Beauty and the Search for Home

Snorklewort (best name!), columbines, daffodils, and spring beauty in @emergencemagazine.bsky.social

"Cells at the tip of the sleeping embryo keep up hormonal conversations among themselves ... Eventually the chemical whispers jolt ... wake up, let’s go!"

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Join me for an upcoming talk! New locations added, including Seattle and the online Tricycle conference. Registration and details -- dghaskell.com/speaking/%F0...

Wild Fungarium is a must-visit in Edinburgh, Scotland. They have a wonderfully curated collection of wildlife and nature books, as well as toys, gifts, seeds. I highly recommend a long stop at this new independent bookshop. Thank you for your welcome, James!

Why flowers are key to our survival Flowers are much more than just a pretty face

"He is a lively writer with an appealingly light touch, but his message about ‘the astonishing creativity and productivity of flowers’ is a serious one."
Delighted to read this review of How Flowers Made our World by Constance Craig Smith in @dailymail.co.uk
www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/a...

Thank you, Rosalind!

Thank you for coming to the talk, Phil!

Nearly full, but some seats remain. Join me for tales of floral revolution 🌼 Reception celebrating Vitis and yeast following

Celebrate the Best of Environmental Journalism | SEJ Awards Presentation Returns to SEJ2026 — SEJ2026 Environmental Journalism Conference Discover top environmental journalism and support impactful stories at SEJ2026, celebrating excellence in reporting on pressing environmental issues.

Congrats to all the winners of @sejorg.bsky.social 2026 Environmental Journalism Awards. Check out their good work here... www.sej2026.org/awards#carmo...

The secret powers of flowers Flowers are known for their beauty, but biologist David George Haskell argues they are also critical to the diversity of life as we know it.

A great pleasure to join Ira Flatow on @scifri.bsky.social to discuss the world-changing powers of flowers, plus the trickster nature of orchids
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Thank you! What great aromas...soil waking the canopy

Wonder Cabinet Intimate conversations about the mysteries of the cosmos and life on a sentient planet with writers, philosophers and scientists who are dazzled by it all.

What a delight and honor to join Anne Strainchamps in conversation about flowers on Wonder Cabinet, her new project with Steve Paulson. We talk about why flowers are revolutionaries, with a good dose of aromatic joy along the way.

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