Driven by Nature
A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability
Distributed for Missouri Botanical Garden Press
408 pages
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50 color plates, 70 halftones
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6 x 9
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Preface
1. Family Roots
2. A Strange Enchanted Boy
3. Botanical Prodigy
4. Formal Training
5. England
6. Stanford
7. Expansion and Changes
8. New Zealand
9. The Missouri Botanical Garden
10. Global Reach
11. Conservation Around the World
12. Champion of Science, Education, and International Cooperation
13. Professional Recognition and Personal Tumult
14. New Adventures at Career’s End
Epilogue: Toward a Green Awakening
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Sources and Credits
Index
Preface
1. Family Roots
2. A Strange Enchanted Boy
3. Botanical Prodigy
4. Formal Training
5. England
6. Stanford
7. Expansion and Changes
8. New Zealand
9. The Missouri Botanical Garden
10. Global Reach
11. Conservation Around the World
12. Champion of Science, Education, and International Cooperation
13. Professional Recognition and Personal Tumult
14. New Adventures at Career’s End
Epilogue: Toward a Green Awakening
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
Illustration Sources and Credits
Index
Review Quotes
Jerry Brown, former governor of California
"From his green awakening as a young boy, collecting butterflies and beetles, to his leadership of the famed Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter Raven tells the extraordinary story of his encounter with plants and other organisms. An incredible life journey takes him from Madagascar to China and countless places in between as he searches to understand the diverse species that form our web of life. In clear and understandable prose, Raven shows the beauty and complexity of nature and the tragedy of its mass extinctions. It is a human story that also carries a timely warning."
Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences
"Pull up a chair for a front row seat to the birth of humanity’s realization that our future is dependent on a fragile and finite biosphere and to the story of the farsighted science leader who turned a Midwestern U.S. botanical garden into a global institution for environmental sustainability."
Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, authors of The Population Bomb
"This book recounts in fascinating detail the ways in which his long, varied life and deeply inquisitive mind have allowed Peter Raven to contribute so much, both to his colleagues and to science generally.”
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