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’!