Still not finished, Mr. Golden subsequently persuaded the Nature Conservancy to donate 107 acres that it owned adjacent to the forest, and to split the legal fees, in effect letting the organization pay for the privilege of contributing to Mr. Golden's cause.
The dilemma posed by ecosystem services – an approach to conservation that seeks to put a price on nature to persuade politicians it is worth saving – lies at the heart of The Moth Snowstorm, Mike McCarthy's impassioned case for nature, told through his adventures as a long-serving environmental correspondent.
Evidence of this nature helped persuade Eleanor Sidgwick, in the years following Henry's death, that his personality had survived physical death and succeeded in communicating with her (Schultz, 2004).
As a speaker, he was eloquent and persuasive; Procopius calls him "fitted by nature to persuade men", while Cassiodorus, who witnessed his embassies to the Ostrogoth court, also praises him as vir eloquentissimus and disertissimus ("most eloquent man"), and as sapientissimus ("most wise").
And at home his gentle, studious nature persuaded his people that he had the virtuous character that is a necessary complement of the gifts of blood.
At the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) meeting in Nagoya, Japan, many conservation experts are hoping previously reluctant governments will be persuaded that protecting nature is worthwhile.
I believe he has one big task ahead: without destroying the RSC's ensemble nature, he has to persuade leading actors to rejoin the company.
For Smith, social sympathy rests on that "principle to persuade which so much prevails in human nature".
The substantive nature of the meetings helped persuade the White House that it was worth putting Mr. Xi and Mr. Obama together sooner than the diplomatic calendar would have dictated.
The hope of conservationists is that their discoveries can help persuade the Cambodian government to create a vast nature preserve.
