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Oct 14, 2026
Episode 33: Featuring Opera Star Joyce DiDonato, Botanist Peter Grima, and Therapeutic Horticulture Practitioner Kate Irvine
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57:39Peter GrimaGUEST
But, um, most importantly, she really embraced her and deepened her own version of botanical study instead of doing that.
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57:49Peter GrimaGUEST
So her observations of flowers actually helped her understand the human experience, and I feel like people often casually say she anthropomorphized flowers, but I firmly think that she was botanicalizing the human experience, that her observations of the botanical world are actually so rich and detailed that she understood the human experience better because of her observations of plants.
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58:15Peter GrimaGUEST
And that, you know, she was watching them, how plants grow in a meadow, and how they interact with their neighbors, how they deal with pollinators, like bees intruding on them, or how they interact with butterflies, receive the sun, mo- how they move during the day.
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58:26Peter GrimaGUEST
These are things that she was observing and then used as devices to explain what she was trying to figure out in her own life.