Mother Nature

When Mother Nature or Mother Earth, nature or the environment is personified in the figure of speech that plays a female role by the figure of the mother. Images, in which nature is personified as a woman, are timeless. Often the words are associated with life.

The phrase was first used presumably in Mycenaean Greek. The metaphor, however, came only in 1770 in the early days of industrialization in greater use. She also finds today - translated into the respective language - in many tongues use, so among other things in Mother Nature and the steam engine by Gerhard Kaiser. The of neo-pagan influences, in particular embossed in the literature antithesis of wilderness, untouched nature and man-made landscape, however, is itself artificial and a strict separation not possible.