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:
“If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“If from the earth we came, it was an earth
That bore us as a part of all the things
It breeds and that was lewder than it is.
Our nature is her nature. Hence it comes,
Since by our nature we grow old, earth grows
The same. We parallel the mother’s death.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)