The phrase "alter nature" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to describe when someone or something changes or affects the natural environment. For example, "The new highway construction project will alter nature in this region."
The real question is not whether we will continue to alter nature for our purposes but how we will do so.
Synthetic biologists are convinced that, with enough knowledge, they will be able to write programs to control those genetic components, programs that would let them not only alter nature but guide human evolution as well.
For him it was necessary to modify the traditional claim that "art imitates nature" by asserting that artists must deliberately alter nature by adding elements of feeling to perceived reality.
The patent office sees the patents as valid and consistent with its duty to protect and promote invention; Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. and the Justice Department oppose them on grounds that what nature makes cannot be patented and Myriad's isolation of DNA did not change it enough to alter nature and be eligible for a patent.
We have already altered nature's course everywhere.
Almond's seductive photographs contain a polemic on how technology and industrialisation has altered nature.
Thomas has argued that there has been little discussion of the ethical and cultural implications of altering nature so fundamentally.
So when people start saying that we're altering nature in a fundamental way, it's both, I think, wrong and a misreading of how we farm".
In revising a piece that quoted Tennyson, for instance, he altered "nature red in tooth and claw" to "nature red in claw and tooth", reasoning that a predator's claws would be bloodied before its teeth.
The main themes of the exhibition include reaffirming the gentle nature of the monster as written by Mary Shelley, rather than the horrific murderer depicted in the American film; addressing the history of humans altering nature since the novel was published in 1818; and the clash of scientific research and ethical cultures.
The concept of justice in Leibniz's view is fixed independent of God's choice, and so God has no more power to alter the nature of justice than He does to alter the nature of circularity.
