History Main / MotherNature

* Gaea from Creator/MarvelComics.

When Mother Nature ''isn't'' exactly the ideal mother, see NatureIsNotNice.

Contrast NatureIsNotNice, when Mother Nature ''isn't'' exactly an ideal mother.

* Invoked in ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'' by the head of the Zero Dawn project, Elizabet Sobek. In order to save the world from a RobotUprising [[spoiler:or rather, re-create the biosphere from scratch after the unstoppable Faro Plague finished consuming everything bigger than a bacteria.]] she built GAIA, an [[BenevolentAI artificial intelligence]] with a [[AllLovingHero love for living things]] and the infrastructure needed to manage the ecosystem on a global scale. She even designed GAIA's holographic avatar to fit this trope, presenting as an African woman in a toga.

Often a ''bona fide'' PhysicalGod, if not outright one of the PowersThatBe. Actually pissing her off is likely to result in GaiasVengeance (also compare NatureIsNotAToy), while making her sad can result in [[GaiasLament Gaia's Lament]]. If merely human but with a gift for gardening and horticulture, an EarthMother.

* Mother Nature (voiced by Phyllis Diller) appears in the {{Creator/Filmation}} ''Disney/SnowWhite'' sequel ''WesternAnimation/HappilyEverAfter''.

* ''Disney/{{Moana}}'' has Te [=FiTi=], the Goddess of Life who created every island on Earth. She is presented as a giant woman with green flora covering her body. When she goes to sleep she becomes the Mother Island.

Contrast NatureIsNotNice, when Mother Nature isn't exactly a very good mother.

* Empress Natellusia or Lusie in the ''Return of the Guardians'' trilogy. She [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld looks like]] an AmbiguouslyBrown little girl with an UnlimitedWardrobe of [[WomanInWhite immaculate white]] clothes, and her only power is to communicate with all forms of life, but since the Earth ''wants'' to do Lusie's bidding, the kid commands plant life, animals, weather and Ether, the sparkly building blocks of creation. [[spoiler:Like Mother Nature in Joyce's original books, she is also Pitch Black's long-lost daughter.]]

* There was a commercial campaign for Chiffon margarine in the 1970s that had a Mother Nature. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8 It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!]]" *thunderclap*

Often a ''bona fide'' PhysicalGod, if not outright one of the PowersThatBe. Actually pissing her off is likely to result in GaiasVengeance, while making her sad can result in [[GaiasLament Gaia's Lament]]. If merely human but with a gift for gardening and horticulture, an EarthMother.

[[caption-width-right:343:She's got the whole world in her hands.]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUbxUVR_UXI Waiting for Rain - Kida & Pocahontas]]'' is a {{fanvid}} where Kida is a PhysicalGod anc the embodiment of nature. Pocahontas meets her and [[MayflyDecemberFriendship befriends her]], but Kida ends up kidnapped by colonizers.

* [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender flipped]] in UsefulNotes/EgyptianMythology with Geb the Earth Father and Nut the Sky Mother.

* [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender flipped]] in Egyptian Mythology with Geb the Earth Father and Nut the Sky Mother.

* Atabey in Taino legend is the goddess of fresh water and fertility, who also represents the spirit of earth.

* And there was a commercial campaign for Chiffon margarine in the 1970s that had a Mother Nature. "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLrTPrp-fW8 It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!]]" *thunderclap*

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* Dogs and wolves in ''Literature/{{Survivor|Dogs}}s'' believe in the Earth-Dog. She is black-furred and mastiff-like dog that lives in the earth. She is treated much like Mother Nature, but there are other Spirit Dogs that rule over things like the ocean. The Earth-Dog causes earthquakes and [[TheGrimReaper claims bodies after death]]. Dogs often bury their prey as offerings to her.

* Dogs and wolves in ''Literature/{{Survivor|Dogs}}s'' believe in the Earth-Dog. She is black-furred and mastiff-like dog that lives in the earth. She is treated much like Mother Nature, but there are other Spirit Dogs that rule over things like the ocean. The Earth-Dog causes earthquakes and claims bodies after death. Dogs often bury their prey as offerings to her.

* Terra, the Mother Goddess of the ''Mythology101Cycle'', who is the EthicalSlut version.

* In Creator/{{Simon R Green}}'s novel ''DrinkingMidnightWine'' the character of [[spoiler:Gale, AKA Gaia, turns out to be the]] AnthropomorphicPersonification of nature and earth.

* Old MotherNature in Thornton W. Burgess's animal stories set in the Green Meadow, the Green Forest, the Laughing Brook, the Smiling Pool, etc. CatchPhrase: "You can't fool Mother Nature, and it's of no use to try."

* Sakiko on ''TabletopGame/HonorableHogwarts''. InvokedTrope.

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* Dogs and wolves in ''Literature/{{Survivor|Dogs}}s}}'' believe in the Earth-Dog. She is black-furred and mastiff-like dog that lives in the earth. She is treated much like Mother Nature, but there are other Spirit Dogs that rule over things like the ocean. The Earth-Dog causes earthquakes and claims bodies after death. Dogs often bury their prey as offerings to her.

* ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' has Mother Yerta, the eternally pregnant goddess who nurtures the world in her womb. Her iconography is also prominently featured in tombs, since Gefendur scripture holds that human bodies are gifts that should be returned to Yerta upon death.

* The various Ladies from the ''RepairmanJack'' novels.

* Burn from ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' is very literally the world the characters walk on and apropriately enough referred to as the 'Mother Goddess'.

* Ads for Always feminine-hygiene products have Mother Nature as a woman in a green tweed skirtsuit approaching young women with a red "gift"... and usually getting her ass kicked as the voiceover says "Outsmart Mother Nature."