" Even though Gaea was
one of the most prominent
figures in the earliest myths,
Mother Earth suffered a
greatly diminished status
with the eventual transfer
of power to patriarchal
(men-ruled) societies.
She drifts between being
an individual character
and a personified conceptual
entity representing the
original life force of the earth."
and there he stood
in the garden
with his new cellphone
trying to make a connection
with nature.. ;>)