The Durham Garden Forum, NC State Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Durham County, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, JC Raulston Arboretum, and North Carolina Botanical Garden proudly present:
The Light Eaters, a virtual book talk with Zoë Schlanger
• Tuesday, December 16
• 7-8:30 p.m. ET
• Zoom webinar
• Free for members of the North Carolina Botanical Garden Foundation, Sarah P Duke Gardens, JC Raulston Arboretum, Durham Garden Forum, and Durham County Master Gardeners
• $10 for non-members
Register:
https://reg.learningstream.com/reg/event_page.aspx?ek=0005-0014-44978c6930994390b7df98f2868b8352
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Zoë Schlanger is a staff writer at the Atlantic, where she covers climate change. She is the author of The Light Eaters, a New York Times bestselling book about the world of plant-behavior-and-intelligence research, published by HarperCollins. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, and The New York Review of Books, among other major outlets. She was the recipient of a 2017 National Association of Science Writers reporting award for coverage of air pollution in Detroit, and a finalist for the 2019 Livingston Award for a series on water politics at the Texas-Mexico border. She is often a guest speaker at journalism schools. She lives in New York.
The Light Eaters is a New York Times bestseller that has been dubbed a groundbreaking work of popular science that probes the hidden world of the plant kingdom. It is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence.
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