Mother Earth. The Earth is my mother, yet it works, always, both ways. If the Earth is my mother then I am child of the Earth, and in the same way that the behaviour, state, thoughts, health of my own children affect me, so I affect the Earth. This is the sense of my deep responsibility to that beneath my feet, but also to my species, my tribe, my family, my destiny; they all bear me, in all senses of the word.