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Mother Nature en · PROPN

Meanings

1. A personification of nature as woman, emphasizing fertility and fecundity.
   • Acting on your best behaviour Turn your back on Mother Nature Everybody wants to rule the world 1985, Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley, Chris Hughes, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”, in Songs from the Big Chair, performed by Tears for Fears:
   • 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. 2020 April 28, Thomas L. Friedman, “Is Sweden Doing It Right?”, in New York Times:
   • Near-synonym: Mother Earth
   • 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. 1867, Henry Latham, Black and White, A Journal of a Three Months' Tour in the United States, page 87:
   • 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 1970, The Friends of Distinction, “Love or Let Me Be Lonely”, in Real Friends:

Forms

Relateds

natural science · law of nature · natural law

Synonyms

Mother Earth

Translations (17)

ja 母自然 (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · de Mutter Natur (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · tr Doğa Ana (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · nl Moeder Natuur (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · pl Matka Natura (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · hi प्रकृती (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · fi luontoäiti (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · ca Mare Naturalesa (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · es Madre Naturaleza (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · pt Mãe Natureza (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · tr Tabiat Ana (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · te ప్రకృతి మాత (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · fr Mère Nature (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · ta இயற்கை அன்னை (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · sv Moder Natur (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · fr Dame Nature (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman) · tl Inang Kalikasan (the personification of Nature and the Earth's biosphere as a woman)