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'Folks in village don't go reporting things,' he said. 'We live and let live. Life wouldn't be worth living if us got telling on one another.'

'Live and let live. In this case it's been die and let die, hasn't it?' said Macdonald.

MURDER IN THE MILL RACE
E. C. R. Lorac (1952)
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"The longer Levin mowed, the oftener he felt the moments of unconsciousness in which it seemed not his hands that swung the scythe, but the scythe mowing of itself, a body full of life and consciousness of its own."
Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy
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(A) place called 'Shrublands' ... he’ll take good care of you. Very up to date equipment, and he’s even got his own herb garden. Nice stretch of country, near Washington in Sussex. ~ Thunderball (1961), Ian Fleming, Jack Whittingham, and Kevin McClory.
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"There was not a human soul near. Sad October and her saddest self seemed the only two existences haunting that lane"

Tess Of The D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

I am the Poem of Earth, said the voice of the rain

Eternal I rise impalpable out of the land and the bottomless sea

- Walt Whitman

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'To dwellers in a wood almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. At the passing of the breeze the fir-trees sob and moan no less distinctly than they rock; the holly whistles as it battles with itself...'
-Thomas Hardy

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“Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court.”
Shakespeare, AS YOU LIKE IT, 3.2
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“It was a sumptuous, oh, truly sumptuous autumn day, all Byzantine coppers and golds under a Tiepolo sky of enamelled blue, the countryside all fixed and glassy, seeming not so much itself as its own reflection in the still surface of the lake"
John Banville 'The Sea' (2005)
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walking in Torridon
my only companion
distant barking dog

~ a Haiku I wrote inspired by the tale of 'cu sìth' the faerie dog. It has a shaggy green coat and will let out three barks as an ill omen

more: "Folklore of Scotland"
folkloreofscotland.com

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"There is no month in the whole year in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August
Orchards and cornfields ring with the hum of labour; trees bend beneath the thick clusters of rich fruit... A mellow softness appears to hang over the whole earth. #BookWormSat

Evenings are very quiet. All around the forest is there.
As night comes down, the houses watch each other: a light going out in a window here has
meaning.

You speed away through the upland…
and are gone in the forest, glowing on far hills.

Driving through Sawmill Towns
Les Murray
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Coward! Liar! Libertine! Who were you with last night? Moll at the mill or Violet at the vicarage? Or Ivy, perhaps, at the ironmongery?

Judith Starkadder to Seth in
Stella Gibbons
Cold Comfort Farm
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'He went, ever on the move, with the slow, shuffling step of wandering beggars who are nowhere at home.'
-Stijn Streuvels

Tomorrow #BookWormSat is travelling to the country with the theme Rural Literature. Do travel with us! :-)

#Harvey and I sit in the bars... We've entered as strangers—soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they talk to us. They tell about their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates.

Elwood P. Dowd in HARVEY by Mary Chase (1944)
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"There's terrible evil in the world. It comes from men... Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals."

—Watership Down, Richard Adams

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