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:
“Since everything in nature answers to a moral power, if any phenomenon remains brute and dark, it is that the corresponding faculty in the observer is not yet active.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Away profane philosopher! seekest thou in nature the cause? This refers to that, and that to the next, and the next to the third, and everything refers. Thou must ask in another mood, thou must feel it and love it, thou must behold it in a spirit as grand as that by which it exists, ere thou canst know the law. Known it will not be, but gladly beloved and enjoyed.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“We know only a single science, the science of history. One can look at history from two sides and divide it into the history of nature and the history of men. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.”
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)