Patience: discover how the best things in life take time

Why wait?

In one minute: your heart beats 60-100 times

In eight minutes: light from the sun reaches Earth

In one hour: a barn owl hunts its prey

In one night: the moon rises and falls

In one day: a dragonfly gets ready to fly

In twelve days: a blackbird incubates her eggs

In two weeks: a camel crosses the desert to drink

In one month: the moon completes a lunar cycle

Over many months: a honeypot ant stores food

In one winter: a grizzly bear waits for spring

In nine months: a baby is born

In one year: an apple tree grows fruit

In twenty-five years: a coral reef starts to form

In thirty years: a century plant blooms

In sixty years: an African savanna elephant grows old

In around eighty years: a human lives a lifetime

In over one hundred years: a Galápagos giant tortoise completes its life cycle.