Nature Manipulation Quotes

Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

Man is complex—he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Man is a complex animal; he makes deserts bloom and lakes die.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature. The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery.

Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is uppermost in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.

Americans are nature-lovers: but they only admit of nature proofed and corrected by man.

A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule.

We were contented to let things remain as the great spirit made them. They were not, and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and biological things that wouldn't be here were it not for us.

Biotech and geo engineering have the same mindset, of engineering, of power, of control, of mastery of nature.

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it.

Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it.

The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

The apparatus defeats its own purpose if its purpose is to create a humane existence on the basis of a humanized nature.

With the aid of these active experimental sciences man becomes an inventor of phenomena, a real foreman of creation; and under this head we cannot set limits to the power that he may gain over nature through future progress of the experimental sciences.

If I were of the trade, I should naturalize art as much as they "artialize" nature.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many hold, in banishing every appearance of Art, or any traces of the footsteps of man, it would then be no longer a Garden.

Are we, finally, speaking of nature or culture when we speak of a rose (nature), that has been bred (culture) so that its blossoms (nature) make men imagine (culture) the sex of women (nature)? It may be this sort of confusion that we need more of.

Fishing... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

Nothing is more completely the child of art than a garden.