killing two birds with one stone In another, Father Nature puts his foot in his mouth when he references “killing two birds with one stone,” in front of an ostrich. And in a shorter ad, he describes the jam's ingredients to a wide-eyed tarsier.

Casting the right Father Nature was key, so Smucker's held five try-outs across three cities and tested dozens of actors before choosing Brandon Keener (whose scores of ad credits memorably included the Skittles "Piñata" spot from 2008).

Mother Nature is a later personification of Mother Earth. It was originally Mother Earth or Gaia. The complement of Mother Earth was Father Sky. At a primeval mythological level, the Earth is our mother and the Sky (Sun and rain) is our father.

Mother Nature (sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth Mother) is a personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother.

In a new ad from Apple, American actor Octavia Spencer portrays 'Mother Nature,' grilling execs including boss Tim Cook on its efforts to become fully carbon neutral by 2023 – and she is a force to be reckoned with.

The Greek creation myth told of the goddess, Gaia, and the god, Uranus, who fell in love. Uranus was the sky and Gaia was the Earth. Together they had many children and grandchildren, who created the plants, animals, stars and springs. The unity of Gaia and Uranus created a sense that the universe was one.

The earliest written usage is in Mycenaean Greek: Ma-ka (transliterated as ma-ga), "Mother Gaia", written in Linear B syllabic script (13th or 12th century BC).

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

The first recorded use of the term 'Mother Nature', sometimes known as Mother Earth or the Earth-Mother, is a common personification of nature that focuses on the life-giving and nurturing aspects of nature by embodying it, in the form of the mother.

Our forests, rivers, oceans and soils provide us with the food we eat, the air we breathe, the water we irrigate our crops with. We also rely on them for numerous other goods and services we depend on for our health, happiness and prosperity. These natural assets are often called the world's 'natural capital'.

Hurricanes, droughts, floods, volcanic eruptions are all Mother Nature 's way of stirring up the pot to prevent stagnation and putrefaction.

"Natura" and the personification of Mother Nature were widely popular in the Middle Ages. As a concept, seated between the properly divine and the human, it can be traced to Ancient Greece, though Earth (or "Eorthe" in the Old English period) may have been personified as a goddess.