Nature
- 10 metres — average length of human digestive tract
- 12 metres — length of a whale shark, largest living fish
- 12 metres — wingspan of a Quetzalcoatlus, a pterosaur
- 13 metres — length of a giant squid and colossal squid, the largest living invertebrates
- 15 metres — approximate distance the tropical circles of latitude are moving towards the equator and the polar circles are moving towards the poles each year due to a natural, gradual decrease in the Earth's axial tilt
- 18 metres — height of a Sauroposeidon, the tallest known dinosaur
- 20 metres — length of a Leedsichthys, the largest known fish ever lived
- 21 metres — height of High Force waterfall in England
- 33 metres — longest measured length of a blue whale, the largest animal on earth, living or extinct, in terms of mass
- 35 metres — length of a Supersaurus, the longest known dinosaur and longest vertebrate
- 40 metres — average depth beneath the seabed of the Channel tunnel
- 52 metres — height of Niagara Falls
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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“When the nature of the thing is incomprehensible, I can acquiesce in the Scripture: but when the signification of words is incomprehensible, I cannot acquiesce in the authority of a Schoolman.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“No one lives in this room
without confronting the whiteness of the wall
behind the poems, planks of books,
photographs of dead heroines.
Without contemplating last and late
the true nature of poetry. The drive
to connect. The dream of a common language.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)