...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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He was all in favour of the countryside, provided that it was on the other side of a window. (TT)
Vimes was hazy on rural issues, but weren't there supposed to be charcoal burners, woodcutters and ... he tried to think ... little girls taking goodies to granny? The stories Vimes had learned as a kid suggested that all forests were full of bustle, activity and the occasional scream. (FE)
The role of the lower intestine in the efforts to build a better nation is one that is often neglected by historians. (CJ)
Lancre people looked after the calories and let the vitamins go hang.
'Do you think I could get a salad?' she ventured. 'Hope not,' said Nanny happily. (CJ) Lancrastians liked clocks, although they didn't bother much about actual time in any length much shorter than an hour. If you needed to boil an egg, you sang fifteen verse of 'Where Had All The Custard Gone?' under your breath. But the tick was a comfort on long evenings. (CJ)
News went around Lancre faster than turpentine through a sick donkey (LL)
‘We spent nine years training to be pioneers. We should have just downloaded a barn-dancing application.’ (LU)
Rincewind was a city wizard and, although he was aware that there were various differences among types of tree by which their nearest and dearest could tell them apart, the only thing he knew for certain was that the end without leaves on fitted into the ground. (LF)
He sighed and pushed open the door.
As one man, the assembled company stopped talking and stared at him with the honest rural stare that suggests that for two pins they’ll hit you around the head with a shovel and bury your body under a compost heap at full moon (M) 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)
‘Do you know why it’s called the countryside, Carrot? Because there’s bloody nothing there except damn trees, which we’re supposed to make a fuss about, but really they’re just stiff weeds!’ (Sn)
The wizards shuddered. They weren’t against the outdoors, it was simply their place in it they objected to. (H)
'Stumps? Stumps? I used to like this forest. It was…well, it was darksome. You don’t get proper darksome any more. You really knew what terror was, in a forest like that.' (TB)
Most people in Lancre, as the saying goes, went to bed with the chickens and got up with the cows.*
*Er. That is to say, they went to bed at the same time as the chickens went to bed, and got up at the same time as the cows got up. Loosely worded sayings can really cause misunderstandings. (Ma) It wasn’t that they didn’t take an interest in the world around them. On the contrary, they had a deep, personal and passionate involvement in it, but instead of asking, ‘Why are we here?’they asked, ‘Is it going to rain before the harvest?’
A philosopher might have deplored this lack of mental ambition, but only if he was really certain about where his next meal was coming from. (CJ) 'The best place for urban fighting is right out in the countryside, sir, where there’s nothing else in the way.' (NW)
And he was pretty sure that there was no way you could get a cross between a human and a sheep. If there was, people would definitely have found out by now, especially in the more isolated rural districts. (LC)
Why is Young Sam’s nursery full of farmyard animals anyway? Why are his books full of moo-cows and baa-lambs? He is growing up in a city. He will only see them on a plate! They go sizzle! (WMC)
‘Never try to milk a chicken. It hardly ever works.' (WMC)
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