mother nature vs mother earth

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What is the difference between Mother earth and Mother nature?
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To me, they both embody the same concept.
 

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For me they bring up very different mental pictures. When someone says "mother nature" I really do imagine a female figure, goddess-like - Ceres, I suppose. When someone says "mother earth" I visualise the earth. It's not that they aren't related concepts, because of course they are; it's just that for me, one is more about the personification than the other.
 

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As they are personifications, Mother Nature and Mother Earth deserve to be capitalised.

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I've never thought of Nature as existing only on Earth. At what level of the atmosphere does it disappear. Is the non-Earth universe, for example the Sun, unnatural?
 

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For me they bring up very different mental pictures. When someone says "mother nature" I really do imagine a female figure, goddess-like - Ceres, I suppose. When someone says "mother earth" I visualise the earth. It's not that they aren't related concepts, because of course they are; it's just that for me, one is more about the personification than the other.

But the personification would work if you thought about Gaea ;-) (whose initial consonant, for what it's worth, is the same as that of 'geography')

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