Nature
- 115.5 metres — height of the world's tallest tree in 2007, the Hyperion sequoia
- 310 metres — maximum depth of
- 340 metres — distance sound travels in air at sea level in one second; see speed of sound
- 979 metres — height of the Salto Angel, the world's highest free-falling waterfall (Venezuela)
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“For, as it is dislocation and detachment from the life of God, that makes things ugly, the poet, who re-attaches things to nature and the Whole,—re-attaching even artificial things, and violations of nature, to nature, by a deeper insight,—disposes very easily of the most disagreeable facts.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Philosophically considered, the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)