‘Both iron road and level highway are shunned by the rural Pan, who chooses rather to foot it along the sheep-track on the limitless downs … not without pleasant fellowship with feather and fur.’ — Kenneth Grahame, ‘Pagan Papers’ (1894) #BookWormSat

🎨 Norman Price 🇨🇦

“there was a regular charm, thrushes & willow-wrens, 7-coloured linnets, canbottlins, finches, & writing-maisters. It was a weaving of many threads, with one maister-thread of clear gold..
I thought maybe love was like that”

(Mary Webb, Precious Bane)

Rowland Hilder
#BookWormSat #RuralLiterature

‘We sought the hollow ash that was shelter from the rain
With our pockets full of peas we had stolen from the grain
How delicious was the dinner time on such a showry day
O words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away
The ancient pulpit trees and the play’ ~ John Clare #BookWormSat

‘Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;
Lengthen night and shorten day;
Every leaf speaks bliss to me
Fluttering from the autumn tree.’ ~ Emily Brontë.
@racheldeering.bsky.social here for the rest of a rural #BookWormSat

"The hidden roots escape my thoughts,
I love but what I see.
A tree has lovely limbs, I know,
Both large and strong, down under earth;
But all my thoughts are in the boughs,
That give the green leaves birth."

- W H Davies, 'Earth Love'
(Photo by me)
#BookWormSat #poetry

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Artist: Euzebio Denner

Miss Instone said, “Children, you were all at the Fair yesterday, I’m sure. Out slates! Out slate pencils! Write a composition on the following – My Day at the Fair…”

—George Mackay Brown, “The Horse Fair”
from THE WRECK OF THE ARCHANGEL (1989)
#BookWormSat #poem
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'We have been married nearly twenty-four hours, and are still married; which in these days may be considered a record. But then, you see, padre, we are old-fashioned, country-bred people.'

BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON
Dorothy L. Sayers #BookWormSat
Poster for the 1940 film adaptation, 'Haunted Honeymoon'

“As for Tess Durbeyfield ... she remained with her comrades till dusk, and participated with a certain zest in the dancing.” ~ Tess of the d'Urbervilles (1891), Thomas Hardy.
#BookWormSat #Film #NastassjaKinski

Emma blushed.

Such pretty Easter daisies, he said, and oracles aplenty for maids in love.

Madame Bovary / Gustave Flaubert

Ivan Shishkin #BookWormSat

"Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights."

(Emily Brontë "Wuthering Heights")

🎨 Lewis Chrighton

#bookwormsat

"It was the first day of June...Every green was young, every pore was open...the landscape being all health and colour. God was palpably present in the country, and the devil had gone with the world to town."

📗 Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
🎨 John Constable

#BookWormSat #rurality

"The instinctive act of humankind was to stand and listen, and learn how the trees on the right and the trees on the left wailed or chaunted to each other in the regular antiphonies of a cathedral choir."

📗Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

#BookWormSat #rurality

"Clarke [saw] the path from his father’s house had led him into an undiscovered country, and he was wondering at the strangeness of it all.... The wood was hushed, and for a moment he stood face to face with a presence neither man nor beast."
- Arthur Machen, "The Great God Pan"
#BookWormSat

"During the summer months, the river is at the bottom of the garden and during the winter months, the garden is at the bottom of the river." ~ Ring for Jeeves (1953), P.G. Wodehouse.
#BookWormSat #JeevesAndWooster

“…the TRAINSPOTTING of its day… an angry young man’s response to the misrepresentation of contemporary Scottish life”

George Douglas Brown (1869–1902) is best known for THE HOUSE WITH THE GREEN SHUTTERS (1901), set in #C19 Ayrshire
#BookWormSat #Booksky 💙📚
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