Driven by Nature: A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability

It’s safe to say that few people have lived lives as thoroughly devoted to plants as Peter H. Raven has. The longtime director—now president emeritus—of the Missouri Botanical Garden, author of numerous leading textbooks and several hundred scholarly articles, Raven has been a tireless champion of sustainability and biodiversity, earning him the plaudit of “Hero for the Planet” from Time.

Driven by Nature is the first chronicle of this prominent scientist and conservationist’s life. Moving f...