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Mother Nature

American  

noun

  1. a personification of the forces of nature as a controlling and regulating maternal being, sometimes creative and caring.


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“Mother Nature reigns supreme, both literally and figuratively.”

From The Wall Street Journal

“I’ve learned a lot about what I might get,” she said, “but Mother Nature always has her monkey wrench in hand.”

From Los Angeles Times

In the midst of Belém’s COP30 bedlam, environmentalists, economists, lobbyists and diplomats busily haggle at the global climate conference about what we can and cannot get away with in negotiations over Mother Nature.

From Los Angeles Times

These are Mother Nature’s ordinary challenges.

From The Wall Street Journal

The final entry in the logbook read: “After four score and three years, St. George Reef Light is dark. ... May Mother Nature show you mercy. You have been abandoned, but never will you be forgotten.”

From Los Angeles Times