Nature
- 115.5 metres — height of the world's tallest tree in 2007, the Hyperion sequoia
- 310 metres — maximum depth of
- 340 metres — distance sound travels in air at sea level in one second; see speed of sound
- 979 metres — height of the Salto Angel, the world's highest free-falling waterfall (Venezuela)
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“Brittle beauty that nature made so frail,
Whereof the gift is small, and short the season,
Flow’ring today, tomorrow apt to fail,
Tickle treasure, abhorred of reason,
Dangerous to deal with, vain, of none avail,
Costly in keeping, passed not worth two peason,”
—Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey (1517?–1547)
“As Nature is always careless and indifferent
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.”
—Stevie Smith (1902–1971)
“Technological change defines the horizon of our material world as it shapes the limiting conditions of what is possible and what is barely imaginable. It erodes ... assumptions about the nature of our reality, the “pattern” in which we dwell, and lays open new choices.”
—Shoshana Zuboff (b. 1951)