Before we get going, here's a little tease.

Around this time of year, some of you in the Northeast

begin to see flowers popping up all around you in the woods and fields.

But no one planted them.

So Eliza wants to know.

Why do flowers grow wild?

Keep listening after the episode to learn more. This is, but why, a podcast for Curious Kids from Vermont Public Radio.

I'm the host of this show, Jane Lindholm.

We take questions from Curious Kids All over the world and find interesting ways and people to answer them.

Today we're going to get scientific, but also a little philosophical and imaginative.

And we're going to do it with the help of a friend of mine named Zoe Keating.

Zoe is a cellist.

You might remember in one episode a long time ago,

we learned a little bit about how stringed instruments like the

cello make sound.

So you might want to go back and listen to that episode after this.

It's called Why Do People Like Different Types of Music?

In this episode, Zoe is going to use her cello

and her songwriting ability to help us feel our way

through the episode as we listen.

I want you to look up wherever you are right now. Maybe you're in a car, maybe you're in your bedroom,

or maybe you're outside or near a window and you can look up, up, up, as far as the sky will go until your eyesight bumps into the clouds or just a barrier of blue.

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