Nature
- 10 metres — average length of human digestive tract
- 12 metres — length of a whale shark, largest living fish
- 12 metres — wingspan of a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur
- 13 metres — length of a giant squid and colossal squid, the largest living invertebrates
- 15 metres — approximate distance the tropical circles of latitude are moving towards the equator and the polar circles are moving towards the poles each year due to a natural, gradual decrease in the Earth's axial tilt
- 18 metres — height of a Sauroposeidon, the tallest known dinosaur
- 20 metres — length of a Leedsichthys, the largest known fish ever lived
- 21 metres — height of High Force waterfall in England
- 33 metres — longest measured length of a blue whale, the largest animal on earth, living or extinct, in terms of mass
- 35 metres — length of a Supersaurus, the longest known dinosaur and longest vertebrate
- 40 metres — average depth beneath the seabed of the Channel tunnel
- 52 metres — height of Niagara Falls
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonised, the religion cannot be healthy?”
—Harriet Martineau (1802–1876)