mother nature vs mother earth

[Over the top]

What is the difference between Mother earth and Mother nature?
Thank you ;-)

 

[SlickVic9000]

(Not a Teacher)

To me, they both embody the same concept.

 

[Tullia]

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.

 

[Rover_KE]

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

Rover

 

[Raymott]

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?

 

[BobK]

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')

b