Supernature is the term Montessori uses to describe the nature man creates by his work on transforming his environment, taking all that exists in nature and changing it, often to a higher plane. (Boehnlein, Montessori, Maria)

“Man, then works with a true spirit of sacrifice and by his work transforms the environment, creating another world that pervades all of nature. This world is something more than nature, for to build it man uses everything that exists in nature. Man creates a supernature. And man’s supernature is different from ordinary nature… He creates artificial things in nature… He is the master of nature… He even wrests from the universe what nature herself could never have given him… He has learned to exploit sources of energy lying deep below the surface of the earth and is using them for the creation of the supernature… He has tamed lightening and is working miracles.” (Montessori, Maria, Education and Peace, pp. 92-93) “Man takes all that exists in nature and puts it on a higher plane, that of Supernature.” (Montessori, Maria, The 1946 London Lectures, p. 92)