"transforming nature" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe any process by which the natural environment is changed, for example: "The dam project is transforming nature in the valley."
First, against Hegel's conception of work as the dialectic of spirit transforming nature (and nature naturalizing labor), Levinas describes labor phenomenologically as effort and fatigue,[19] highlighting the divergence between embodied self and the intending ego.
At her best, she makes both the emotional complexity of living and the transforming nature of art seem immediate, irrefutable and contemporary.
In Not Your Typical Political Animal: Animal Drawings and Paintings by Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal (Art Attack, paper, $24.95), this New York-born "red-diaper baby" turned Southern California art activist reveals his skill at transforming nature into propaganda.
But in the end, the practical knowledge of the servants will prove much more powerful and effective compared to the lofty contemplations of the Masters who, instead of really interacting with and transforming nature, rather develop a worldview, i.e. an imaginary vision of nature (as a spherical, harmonious whole, a κόσμος).
He aims at "understanding the basic structures of things … as a means to transforming nature for human purposes" (Gaukroger 2001, 140; Clericuzio 2000, 78ff).; and thus he "ends" the unfinished Novum Organum with a list of things which still have to be achieved or with a catalogue of phenomena which are important and indispensable for a future natural history.
Every region, and family seem to have their own way of preparing food, of transforming nature's raw materials into nourishment and deliciousness.
But apart from the many startling details, there is a larger theme running through the show, about how cultures transform nature, and how, in recent years, those transformations may have gone awry.
They transform nature into culture.
The tree advances his argument that landscape architecture, even at its most naturalistic, essentially transforms nature into artifice, and that accepting this opens the mind to the extraordinary.
Between the city and the forest lies the farm, where humans have transformed nature but are still in intimate contact with other creatures.
Not so the South Indian scenery, made glorious by Mr. Shetty's saturated palette and showman's ability to transform nature into an eye-popping stage set.
