English to Russian Social Sciences History China

контекст: But generally speaking, whether in the practice of ***changing nature*** or of changing society, men's original ideas, theories, plans or programmes are seldom realized without any alteration... That is to say, it does happen that the original ideas, theories, plans or programmes fail to correspond with reality either in whole or in part, and are wholly or partially incorrect."

как вы полагаете, тут речь идёт про изменения природы? реки вспять и всё такое?

цитата из работы Мао Цзедуна "О практике".