Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth) is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it in the form of the mother. Images of women representing mother earth, and mother nature, are timeless. In prehistoric times, goddesses were worshipped for their association with fertility, fecundity, and agricultural bounty. Priestesses held dominion over aspects of Incan, Algonquian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Slavonic, Germanic, Roman, Greek, Indian, and Iroquoian religions in the millennia prior to the inception of patriarchal religions.
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“Doesnt that show what an old man I am, when I can say to a mother I love your daughter, and not get the reply what are your intentions, and what is your income?”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (18321898)
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—Samuel Johnson (17091784)