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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Famous quotes containing the word nature:
“His life was gentle, and the elements
So mixed in him that nature might stand up
And say to all the world “This was a man.””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“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)
“Psychologists have set about describing the true nature of women with a certainty and a sense of their own infallibility rarely found in the secular world.”
—Naomi Weisstein, U.S. psychologist, feminist, and author. Psychology Constructs the Female (1969)