Question

Nature has often been referred to as mother nature because

Answer 1

I wonder who came up with the term “mother nature”

Answer 2

Mother Nature' is a way of personifying nature, and referring to nature as a 'mother' because nature is life-giving like a mother. Gaia, Demeter, and most other deities of nature were goddesses, because nature represented fertility. Life grows from the earth

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