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:
“Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet’s eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. Such is the nature of all living things.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnare for our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)