Answer:
cloud is my mother wind is my father.
Six letters do my name compound; among the aged oft I'm found; The shepherd also by the brook hears me when Leaning on his crook; but in the middle me divide and take the half on either side each backward read a liquor tell ev'ry gay toper knows it well.
I keep growing and am practically indestructible. I get eaten, but always come back. I survive cold and lie everywhere. You see me everyday. What am I?
I am the kind of an ant that's good at math. What am I?
I direct you from outer space.
A little house full of meat, no door to go in and eat.