Nature itself produces the means of its own transcendence

 Claude Monet


In the Tempest Act 11.sc i, a dialectical interplay of culture and nature can be found in Gonzalo's description of Ferdinand swimming from the wrecked ship.

FRANCISCO
Sir, he may live:
I saw him beat the surges under him,
And ride upon their backs; he trod the water,
Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
The surge most swoln that met him; his bold head
'Bove the contentious waves he kept, and oar'd
Himself with his good arms in lusty stroke
To the shore, that o'er his wave-worn basis bow'd,
As stooping to relieve him: I not doubt
He came alive to land.

Since swimming activly creates the surges only to ride upon their backs. The resistance of the waves
allows the swimmer to act upon it (nature).


The point being that nature, although recalitrant and antagonistic to human shaping - none the less - nature itself produces the means of its own transcendence, just as say, the Derridean supplement is already contained in what it amplifies.

Source: The Idea of Culture  Terry Eagleton