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:
“Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information—never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good—he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
“Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, “I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway.””
—Maya Angelou (b. 1928)