David G Haskell
@dghaskell.bsky.social
Writer, biologist
🌻How Flowers Made our World = new book in March 2026. Pre-orders now open!
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
🌻How Flowers Made our World = new book in March 2026. Pre-orders now open!
Sounds Wild and Broken
13 Ways to Smell a Tree
The Songs of Trees
The Forest Unseen
Had a lot of fun this morning recording the preface and afterword of How Flowers Made our World. I hope that the gesticulations will come through in audio 😂 The marvelous Cassandra Campbell will record the main parts of the book. Pre-orders are open, and the book is published on March 24th 🌻
January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Had a lot of fun this morning recording the preface and afterword of How Flowers Made our World. I hope that the gesticulations will come through in audio 😂 The marvelous Cassandra Campbell will record the main parts of the book. Pre-orders are open, and the book is published on March 24th 🌻
Flower aromas use beauty to interweave plants, insects, and humans. There's more than enough hard stuff in life, especially now, so let's accept the flowers' invitations when we can 💚💔 Wishing everyone a few moments of interconnected beauty this weekend, wherever you are. #breadandjusticeandroses
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Flower aromas use beauty to interweave plants, insects, and humans. There's more than enough hard stuff in life, especially now, so let's accept the flowers' invitations when we can 💚💔 Wishing everyone a few moments of interconnected beauty this weekend, wherever you are. #breadandjusticeandroses
Er, you left out the part about destroying the rule of law, opening a floodgates to unheard of corruption, abusing human rights, coddling and pardoning dictators and warlords, and launching full-on assault on democracy. Etc. A shameful headline
December 27, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Er, you left out the part about destroying the rule of law, opening a floodgates to unheard of corruption, abusing human rights, coddling and pardoning dictators and warlords, and launching full-on assault on democracy. Etc. A shameful headline
One last sunbathing session before the big chill hits
Green anole in Atlanta this afternoon
Headed to 18 deg F tomorrow night. Time to dig
Green anole in Atlanta this afternoon
Headed to 18 deg F tomorrow night. Time to dig
December 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
One last sunbathing session before the big chill hits
Green anole in Atlanta this afternoon
Headed to 18 deg F tomorrow night. Time to dig
Green anole in Atlanta this afternoon
Headed to 18 deg F tomorrow night. Time to dig
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
December 11, 2025 at 7:13 PM
If you need a little digital reconnection to the pulse of the living Earth, here are about 200 sandhill cranes winging south over Atlanta this afternoon. Their voices have echoed across this continent for at least 5 million years. Hopefully 5 million more
6000 years ago, ancestors in Central Asia had the great idea of collaborating with these wild mustards. In the millennia that followed, people all over Asia, North Africa, and Europe worked with the plants to create a marvelous diversity of delicious forms. Thank you ancestors, thank you Brassica!
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
6000 years ago, ancestors in Central Asia had the great idea of collaborating with these wild mustards. In the millennia that followed, people all over Asia, North Africa, and Europe worked with the plants to create a marvelous diversity of delicious forms. Thank you ancestors, thank you Brassica!
Poinsettias are amazing plants. Their name, though? Problematic.
Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears
In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl
Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears
In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl
December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Poinsettias are amazing plants. Their name, though? Problematic.
Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears
In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl
Joel Poinsett was an enslaver and, as Secretary of War, directed the Trail of Tears
In Nahuatl language of C America and S Mexico, the plant's home, the name is Cuetlaxōchitl, pronounced kwe-tla-SHO-cheetl
Amazing convergence of biodiversity from SE Brazil, colonial horticulture,and hummingbird desire gave us "Christmas cactus"
December 7, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Amazing convergence of biodiversity from SE Brazil, colonial horticulture,and hummingbird desire gave us "Christmas cactus"
Well, that frees up some time this summer. I was looking forward to watching some World Cup here in Atlanta and online. Please join me in rejecting #FIFA and its events
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Well, that frees up some time this summer. I was looking forward to watching some World Cup here in Atlanta and online. Please join me in rejecting #FIFA and its events
Advance Reader proofs are in. How Flowers Made our World 🌼. I'm so grateful to all my readers for your support over the years. I could not be more thrilled to share these stories about flowers with you next year. Pre-orders are open, publication date is March 24th 💚
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December 2, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Advance Reader proofs are in. How Flowers Made our World 🌼. I'm so grateful to all my readers for your support over the years. I could not be more thrilled to share these stories about flowers with you next year. Pre-orders are open, publication date is March 24th 💚
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Reminders (while raking) of the amazing creatures in the leaf litter. Restoring functional and locally-appropriate leaf leaf layer so important!
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
November 21, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Reminders (while raking) of the amazing creatures in the leaf litter. Restoring functional and locally-appropriate leaf leaf layer so important!
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
DeKay's brown snake and giant leopard moth caterpillar
Celebrations of genocide and lynching are, according to the regime, merely politically divisive.
November 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Celebrations of genocide and lynching are, according to the regime, merely politically divisive.
Northern lights in Atlanta!!! Happening right now (Tuesday evening). Never thought I'd see them, let alone in ATL
If your skies are clear in N hemisphere, head outside!
If your skies are clear in N hemisphere, head outside!
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Northern lights in Atlanta!!! Happening right now (Tuesday evening). Never thought I'd see them, let alone in ATL
If your skies are clear in N hemisphere, head outside!
If your skies are clear in N hemisphere, head outside!
Insane mast year
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
November 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Insane mast year
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
Water oak covering Atlanta with the cutest acorns ever
Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
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October 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Eastern Forest playing cards are back in stock! Each card a different species, each suit a different sense. Art by Ellen Litwiller, micropoems on natural history by me. All my proceeds to enviro ed and conservation. Celebrating human play and forest biodiversity 💚
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
www.artofplay.com/products/eas...
Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning.
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
September 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Join me and Nick Dangerfield, founder of Oda oda.co Saturday morning.
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
Oda makes paper sculptures/speakers that bring live sound of regenerating Costa Rican forests to our ears. The project provides funding for forest stewardship.
We'll be talking about the joys and brokenness of sound in our worlds
Let's be like the dragonflies and try to get the rhythms of the living world into our bones and transmitted across the generations.
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Let's be like the dragonflies and try to get the rhythms of the living world into our bones and transmitted across the generations.
Somehow, somehow the knowledge of where to go and when to leave is encoded in the genes of the green darner dragonfly.
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
September 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Somehow, somehow the knowledge of where to go and when to leave is encoded in the genes of the green darner dragonfly.
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
I found this one, a male judging from his neon blue abdomen, sitting on the concrete outside a store in a strip mall in Atlanta. He likely hatched in a pond in Quebec or NY 🧵...
End-of-summer fruitfulness in the SE US...muscadines.
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
September 13, 2025 at 2:52 PM
End-of-summer fruitfulness in the SE US...muscadines.
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
A more complex flavor than table grapes, more tannic, with layers of cardamom and warm hay. Aroma stronger than taste. Thicker skins to give a good bite, with stout seeds.
What's the gastronomic signal of seasonal transition where you are?
Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
August 12, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Coming in March 2026: Flowers! When flowers appeared, nothing was ever the same. They are the world’s great collaborators and creators. Writing this book transformed how I see life’s history and future. Cooperation, beauty, and illusion transform the world. Can't wait to share these stories
Flowers are great illusionists. Here's one example. Others are more extreme, like orchids that mimic female wasps, conning males into trysts that are fruitless for the insect but very helpful for the flower.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
July 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Flowers are great illusionists. Here's one example. Others are more extreme, like orchids that mimic female wasps, conning males into trysts that are fruitless for the insect but very helpful for the flower.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
Illusion is a theme that runs through my book, How Flowers Made our World, out next March.
Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...
February 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Delighted to send the manuscript for my next book to my editor. How flowers made our world...