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:
“War is thus divine in itself, since it is a law of the world. War is divine through its consequences of a supernatural nature which are as much general as particular.... War is divine in the mysterious glory that surrounds it and in the no less inexplicable attraction that draws us to it.... War is divine by the manner in which it breaks out.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
“If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.”
—Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)
“It is an odd jealousy: but the poet finds himself not near enough to his object. The pine-tree, the river, the bank of flowers before him, does not seem to be nature. Nature is still elsewhere.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)