Nature
- 10 cm = 1 dm — diameter of the human cervix upon entering the second stage of labour
- 14 cm = 1.4 dm — length of average human penis
- 15 cm = 1.5 dm — approximate size of largest beetle species
- 29 cm = 2.9 dm — length of average human foot
- 29.98 cm = distance light travels in one nanosecond
- 31 cm = 3.1 dm — wingspan of largest butterfly species Ornithoptera alexandrae
- 50 to 65 cm — a pizote's tail
- 66 cm — length of the longest pine cones (produced by the Sugar Pine)
Distances 1 metre or longer
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.”
—Karl Kraus (1874–1936)
“The studio has become the crucible where human genius at the apogee of its development brings back to question not only that which is, but creates anew a fantastic and conventional nature which our weak minds, impotent to harmonize it with existing things, adopt by preference, because the miserable work is our own.”
—Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863)
“A happy marriage perhaps represents the ideal of human relationship—a setting in which each partner, while acknowledging the need of the other, feels free to be what he or she by nature is: a relationship in which instinct as well as intellect can find expression; in which giving and taking are equal; in which each accepts the other, and I confronts Thou.”
—Anthony Storr (b. 1920)