Seeds: Famed conservationist sees UC Davis campus as 'new Eden'
Hailed by Time magazine as a "Hero for the Planet," the famed conservationist recently spent time with the university's staff as they prepare to turn the entire campus into a public garden. "I feel this campus is right at the cutting edge," said Raven, president emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis and a San Francisco native. "Using the campus as a model, this could be a modern garden of Eden that will allow us to live in harmony with the Earth," he said. A Cal grad who got his doctorate at UCLA, Raven taught at Stanford before moving inland to St. Louis to transform the Missouri Botanical Garden into an ecological showcase. Native grasses flutter in the breeze as students learn from birds and bees. Peter Raven envisions UC Davis as that new Eden, ready to inspire future generations as well as its surrounding community and the state. That could be the University of California, Davis, of the very near future. In this garden, every plant offers lessons of its own. When the arboretum and I were born, California had 6 million people.
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