Khmer classical dance is a transformation of nature, of both the physical world around us and of our own internal universe.

高棉古典舞是对自然的改造，对我们周围的物理世界和我们自己的内在宇宙都是如此。

And Empedocles must have been pretty smart too, when he proved that the world had to consist of more than one single substance. That made all the transformations of nature possible without anything actually changing.

当恩培多克勒证明世界必须由不止一种物质组成时，他一定也很聪明。这使得自然界的所有转变成为可能，而无需任何实际改变。