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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“True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
“It is given to few to add the store of knowledge, to strike new springs of thought, or to shape new forms of beauty. But so sure as it is that men live not by bread, but by ideas, so sure is it that the future of the world lies in the hands of those who are able to carry the interpretation of nature a step further than their predecessors.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)