Mother Nature
English
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[edit]- A personification of nature as woman, emphasizing fertility and fecundity.
- Near-synonym: Mother Earth
- 1867, Henry Latham, Black and White, A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States, page 87:
- The 'wet specimens,' those bottled in spirits, we did not see, as they were not yet arranged but the glass cases of broken bones, cracked and smashed, and bulbous and exfoliated in every form of distortion, as poor mother nature had tried to glue them together and splice them again, gave some idea of the horrors of war.
- 1970, The Friends of Distinction, “Love or Let Me Be Lonely”, in Real Friends:
- Love or let me be lonely / Part time love I can find any day / So don't defy mother nature's way please / Make it mine, a love for to stay
- 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair[1], performed by Tears for Fears:
- Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on Mother Nature
Everybody wants to rule the world
- 2020 April 28, Thomas L. Friedman, “Is Sweden Doing It Right?”, in New York Times[2]:
- But when you’re in a struggle with one of Mother Nature’s challenges — like a virus or a climate change — the goal is not to defeat her. No one can. She’s just chemistry, biology and physics. The goal is to adapt.
Related terms
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[edit]the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman
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Further reading
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Mother Nature on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
