...the place was one of those nowhere villages that existed only in order to avoid the embarrassment of having large empty places on the map. (MR)
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Sometimes the weather has no sense of narrative convenience. (TT)
‘They’re pretty high mountains,’ said Azhural, his voice now edged with doubt.
‘Slopes go up, slopes go down,’ said M’bu gnomically. ‘That’s true,’ said Azhural. ‘Like, on average, it’s flat all the way.’ (MP) The Fool was vaguely aware that you could tell which direction the Hub lay by seeing which side of the trees the moss grew on. A quick inspection of the nearby trunks indicated that, in defiance of all normal geography, the Hub lay everywhere. (WS)
Slake was one of those places, Moist thought, that you put on the map because it was embarrassing to have a map with holes in it. (RS)
This is a bit of the continent, sticking out into the warmer sea to the south-east. Most of its inhabitants call it Florida.
Actually, they don’t. Most of its inhabitants don’t call it anything. They don’t even know it exists. Most of them have six legs, and buzz. A lot of them have eight legs and spend a lot of time in webs waiting for six-legged inhabitants to arrive for lunch. Many of the rest have four legs, and bark or moo or even lie in swamps pretending to be logs. In fact, only a tiny proportion of the inhabitants of Florida have two legs, and even most of them don't call it Florida. They just go tweet, and fly around a lot. (Wings) People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they’re standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don’t look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. (FC)
This is a planet. Most of it is covered in water but it's still called Earth. (Wings)
Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves, and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that they often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all. (MP)
... a wide, mist-filled, thundering cauldron of white water that elsewhere would have a name like Devil’s Cauldron but here was nameless because this was Koom Valley and for Koom Valley there just weren’t enough devils and they didn’t have enough cauldrons. (Th)
The Discworld is as unreal as it is possible to be while still being just real enough to exist. (MP)
The idea that Winter could actually be enjoyable would never have occurred to Ramtop people, who had eighteen different words for snow.*
*All of them, unfortunately, unprintable (WS) There was plenty of flat ground in the Ramtops. The problem was that nearly all of it was vertical. (WS)
The Disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailors who got funny ideas from staring at eggs and oranges for too long and set out for the antipodes soon learned that the reason why distant ships sometimes looked as though they were disappearing over the edge of the world was that they were disappearing over the edge of the world. (LF)
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