

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Author Talk: Dr. David George Haskell - How Flowers Made Our World
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 05:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: When flowers appeared on planet Earth, nothing was ever again the same. Join David Haskell in an exploration of the many ways that flowers – including flowering trees, the majority of trees in Atlanta – build, sustain, and animate the living world, human life included. Through cooperation mediated by beauty (especially gorgeous petals and alluring aromas), flowers built and sustain temperate forests, rainforests, savannas, prairies, and even ocean shores. Flowers also catalyzed our evolution, and we now depend on them for food, forests, and a healthy planet. When we perfume ourselves, give a loved one a bouquet, or enjoy trees and blooms in gardens, we honor the special bond between people and flowers. Using stories from his latest book, How Flowers Made our World, Haskell will illuminate the many ways that we live on a floral planet.

Conservationist and author Sally Bethea will join Dr. Haskell for a memorable and moving fireside chat celebrating How Flowers Made Our World.

About the Author: David George Haskell is a biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His books have twice been finalists for 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 an Award in Literature from American Academy of Arts and Letters, two-time finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, and winner of the National Academies’ Best Book Award, Iris Book Award, Reed Environmental Writing Award, and National Outdoor Book Award for Natural History Literature. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is Adjunct Professor of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. Haskell lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

About the Presenter: Sally Bethea is the retired founding director of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper, an environmental advocacy organization established in 1994 whose mission is to protect and restore the Chattahoochee River. She has an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master’s degree from Georgia Tech, and an honorary doctorate from LaGrange College—as well as more than forty years of experience in environmental issues and nonprofit management. Sally has served on national, regional, and local boards. Since 2015, she has written a monthly sustainability column for Atlanta Intown paper called "Above the Waterline." Sally is the author of an environmental memoir called Keeping the Chattahoochee published by the University of Georgia Press (2023). In 2024, she received the Weltner Freedom of Information Award from the Georgia First Amendment Foundation.

City in a Forest Certification: By attending this program you can earn 1 Acorn towards your City Forest Certification.

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- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/atlanta/author-talk-dr-david-george-haskell-how-flowers-made-our-world/200029828937253
- **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Atlanta
- **state**: GA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 825 Warner Street SW, Suite A, 30310
- **lat**: 33.72481
- **long**: -84.41451
- **full address**: 825 Warner Street SW, Suite A, 30310, 825 Warner St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310-3426, United States

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- **organizer**: Trees Atlanta (https://allevents.in/org/trees-atlanta/4558855)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 28 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 825 Warner Street SW, Suite A, 30310, 825 Warner St SW, Atlanta, GA 30310-3426, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Trees Atlanta
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, literary-art
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