Journal of Discourses, 5:172; “Some say the earth exists without spirit; I do not believe any such thing; it has a spirit as much as anybody has a spirit. How can anything live, except it has a living spirit? How can the earth produce vegetation, fruits, trees, and every kind of production, if there is no life in it?” – Heber C. Kimball, Salt Lake City, August 23, 1857
Colossians 2:8; “Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ”.
Personifying nature or animals is idolatry. This teaching goes along with similar teachings found in the Book of Mormon when they refer to the earth as ‘mother earth’ in 2 Nephi 9:7, Mosiah 2:1 and Mormon 6:15.
The earth does not have a spirit, nor is the earth our ‘mother’!
Also, it’s a pagan belief. Such is the same in Wiccan religion, etc. Worship of creation instead if the creator is very old.
They now call this “earth spirit” – Gaia- and Gaia is alive and well. Even in children’s television! And Oprah Winfrey, Deepok Chopra, and Eckhart Tolle are the clergy.
It’s all about enlightenment.