one alternate name for Mother Earth is Kshama which means patience

For Vedic rites, collecting twigs, kusha and doova grass, earth from the colonies of ants, all were done after invoking the permission of the herb or creature concerned.. permission is sought from the trees and plants before Bilva and Thulasi are plucked.. 

Above all, it was the custom to cut small twigs from certain trees with thorny branches, which oozed milk too, and use them for cleaning the teeth every morning.. 

Even for that, there is a mantra requesting the plant to give permission, and bless us with health because we used their branch for our own purification..

We really know how to love our mother earth and the constituents who live along with us.. 

But nowadays we appear to veer towards callous neglect to respect such things, maybe because we have started to take things for granted..

Anyway, one alternate name for Mother Earth is Kshama which means patience.. So we can hope that She will pardon us.