Earth as Mother
The Earth is mother to all living things. She provides sustenance and deserves care and gratitude in return.
The Earth is mother to all living things. She provides sustenance and deserves care and gratitude in return.
The earth is our mother. From her body, we are fed. To her body, we return.
African Earth Wisdom
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- What African traditions say about land and belonging
The earth is cast as mother to everything living, feeding people from her body and receiving them back into it. Gratitude, on this framing, is owed rather than optional.