What is the term mother nature?
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.
Playing with Nature
In the 1970s Dena Dietrich was in a series of 30-second commercials for Chiffon Margarine, playing the part of Mother Nature. Dressed in a gown of white and adorned with a crown of daisies, she would announce "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" after being fooled into thinking Chiffon Margarine was in fact butter. And lightning and thunder soon ensued.
Why do I bring this up? Well, it's a bit of a stretch but it might apply to some scientists at VIB in Flanders, Belgium who recently figured out how to fool some annual plants into becoming perennials. Neat trick, huh? (but will Ma Nature be amused?)
Researchers have been fascinated for a long time by the evolution of herbaceous to woody structures, which is one of the traits separating annuals from perennials. The research at VIB clearly shows that only two genes are necessary in this process.
If you deactivate those two genes, the VIB researchers found that mutant plants can no longer induce flowering, but they can continue to grow vegetatively or come into flower much later.
In any case, even if Mother Nature doesn't like this sort of thing, the journal Nature does. This report is being published in Nature Genetics in the near future.
Why do I bring this up? Well, it's a bit of a stretch but it might apply to some scientists at VIB in Flanders, Belgium who recently figured out how to fool some annual plants into becoming perennials. Neat trick, huh? (but will Ma Nature be amused?)Researchers have been fascinated for a long time by the evolution of herbaceous to woody structures, which is one of the traits separating annuals from perennials. The research at VIB clearly shows that only two genes are necessary in this process.
If you deactivate those two genes, the VIB researchers found that mutant plants can no longer induce flowering, but they can continue to grow vegetatively or come into flower much later.
In any case, even if Mother Nature doesn't like this sort of thing, the journal Nature does. This report is being published in Nature Genetics in the near future.
Popular culture --- Wikipedia/Mother Nature
- In the early 1970s, a television ad featured character actress Dena Dietrich as Mother Nature. Vexed by an off-screen narrator who informs her she has mistaken Chiffon margarine for butter, she responds with the trademarked slogan "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature" (underscored by thunder and lightning).[10]
- Mother Nature is featured in The Year Without a Santa Claus voiced by Rhoda Mann. This version is the mother of Heat Miser and Snow Miser. She was played by Carol Kane in the 2006 live-action version.
- Mother Nature appears in the 2008 sequel A Miser Brothers' Christmas voiced by Patricia Hamilton. Besides Heat Miser and Snow Miser, she is also shown to be the mother of Earthquake, Thunder and Lightning, the Tides, and North Wind. After Santa Claus was injured during one of the Miser Brothers' feuds (with some part of North Wind's henchmen secretly sabotaging Santa's new sleigh), she and Mrs. Claus make the Miser Brothers work at Santa's workshop to make it up to her.
- Mother Nature appears as a recurring character in The Smurfs voiced by June Foray.
- Progressive rock band Kansas recorded the song "Death of Mother Nature Suite" as a protest against industrialization.
- Mother Earth appears in The Earth Day Special, portrayed by Bette Midler. When she falls from the sky and faints due to the problems with nature, she is rushed to the hospital where she is tended to by Doogie Howser and other doctors.
- Mother Nature is featured in Happily Ever After, voiced by Phyllis Diller. She is depicted as the most powerful force of good in this movie, having complete control over nature, as well as the ability to create creatures from potions she makes in her sanctuary.
- Mother Nature is a recurring character in The New Woody Woodpecker Show, voiced by B.J. Ward. She is depicted as a fairy who often makes sure that Woody Woodpecker is doing his part in nature.
- Mother Nature is a supporting character in The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, portrayed by Aisha Tyler. She is shown as the head leader of the Council of Legendary Figures (which also consists of Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, Cupid, Father Time, Sandman, Tooth Fairy and Jack Frost).
- Mother Nature is featured in John Hancock written by Bo Bissett. She is referred to as Tara, a tribute to her name in Roman Mythology which is Terra or Terra Mater.
- Mother Nature is a recurring character featured in Stargate SG-1. She is portrayed as an ascended Ancient called Oma Desala.
- The animated film Epic features a character named Queen Tara (voiced by Beyoncé Knowles) who is a Mother Nature-like being.
- Mother Nature is a character in the Guardians of Childhood series by William Joyce. The long lost daughter of the Boogieman Pitch, she is a young woman who can control phenomenona of nature. She stays hidden while she watches the world. Her character is expanded in the latest book The Sandman and the War of Dreams.
- She appears in an ad campaign for Tampax feminine hygiene products, as a woman in a green tweed skirt-suit, handing a red "gift" to young women, who typically chase her away or beat her up, as the voiceover says, "Outsmart Mother Nature".
- Mother Nature appears in a major recurring role in the seventh season of Once Upon a Time. Mother Nature is a title for the leader of the dryads. The previous Mother Nature was Mother Flora (portrayed by Gabrielle Miller). Following the death of Mother Flora at the hands of some humans, Gothel (portrayed by Emma Booth) becomes the next Mother Nature.
- Mother Nature is mentioned in the hit song "It's Raining Men." by The Weather Girls & eventually remixed by RuPaul. The lyrics say she is a single woman who is to blessed... That she took on the heavens, every angel, and rearranged the sky so that each and every woman could find the perfect guy."
- A Mother Nature costume was used for a contestant in the sixth season of The Masked Singer. She was revealed to be actress Vivica A. Fox where she was eliminated during the two-night premiere alongside Dwight Howard as "Octopus" and Toni Braxton as "Pufferfish".
David Rusk, “It’s Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature: Sea Level Rise and Managed Withdrawal”
Within 85 years, scientists project, one-eighth of Cambridge would be permanently under water because of a 3-foot rise in sea level; a 6-foot rise would submerge 38% of Cambridge. For the post-Sandy, federal Rebuild By Design program, David Rusk studied the projected impact of sea level rise on the Jersey Shore. He set out major changes in federal and state policies that must be adopted to effect the “managed relocation” of the Jersey Shore. Many of his proposals would be applicable to the Greater Boston area as well. His conclusion: Superstorm Sandy revealed not so much design deficiencies as a massive failure of public policy.” People have been permitted — even subsidized — to build where Mother Nature says they shouldn’t build.
The event is sponsored by Department of Urban Planning and Design, HUPO, and The Storm the Strife and Everyday Life studio.
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