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:
“Now narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficently over others; they go the way their nature guides them. Add to this the guidance of interest, and you will have the key to most social riddles.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All nature is but art unknown to thee;
All chance, direction which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good;
And, spite of pride, in erring reason’s spite,
One truth is clear, “Whatever IS, is RIGHT.””
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)