Discworld - Wikiquote. Discworld is a comic fantasy book series by British author Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which are in turn standing on the back of a giant turtle, the Great A'Tuin. The stories are arranged in several different story arcs that are further explained in the Wikipedia article on the Discworld reading order.

This article also shows quotes of the video game adaptations of the series. He'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.. We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index.. I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best. If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'.

What he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk. The Watch were always careful not to intervene too soon in any brawl where the odds were not heavily stacked in their favour.

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The job carried a pension, and attracted a cautious, thoughtful kind of man."It could be worse," he said by way of farewell. It could be me."That's what's so stupid about the whole magic thing, you know. You spend twenty years learning the spell that makes nude virgins appear in your bedroom, and then you're so poisoned by quicksilver fumes and half- blind from reading old grimoires that you can't remember what happens next. At the back of his mind a bad feeling began to grow. He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep, moreover, that could afford to employ wolves. Picturesque meant - he decided after careful observation of the scenery that inspired Twoflower to use the word - that the landscape was horribly precipitous.

Quaint, when used to describe the occasional village through which they passed, meant fever- ridden and tumbledown. Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind had decided, meant 'idiot'.

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It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers, but the plain fact of the matter was that the Disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.'You know, I never imagined there were he- dryads. Not even in an oak tree.'One of the giants grinned at him. Druellae snorted. Stupid! Where do you think acorns come from?'What heroes like best is themselves.'We've strayed into a zone with a high magical index,' he said. Don't ask me how.

Once upon a time a really powerful magic field must have been generated here, and we're feeling the after- effects.''Precisely,' said a passing bush. The only reason for walking into the jaws of Death is so's you can steal his gold teeth.'It is forbidden to fight on the Killing Ground,' he said, and paused while he considered the sense of this. You know what I mean, anyway..'Ripples of paradox spread out across the sea of causality. He wondered what kind of life it would be, having to keep swimming all the time to stay exactly in the same place. Pretty similar to his own, he decided.

Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or derring- do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer to achieve immortality by not dying. It was octarine, the colour of magic. It was alive and glowing and vibrant and it was the undisputed pigment of the imagination, because wherever it appeared it was a sign that mere matter was a servant of the powers of the magical mind. It was enchantment itself. But Rincewind always thought it looked a sort of greenish- purple.

I've seen excitement, and I've seen boredom. And boredom was best.'What's this wine — crushed octopus eyeballs?''Sea grape,' said the old man.'Great,' said Rincewind, and swallowed a glassful.

Not bad. A bit salty, maybe.''Sea grape is a kind of small jellyfish,' explained the stranger. Why has your friend gone that strange colour?''Culture shock, I imagine,' said Twoflower.'We don't have gods where I come from,' said Twoflower.'You do, you know,' said the Lady. Everyone has gods. You just don't think they're gods.''[..] on the disc, the Gods are not so much worshipped as blamed.'Don’t ask me how I knew—I suppose it was because it was just about the worst possible thing that was likely to happen. I can’t be talking to a tree. If I was talking to a tree I’d be mad, and I’m not mad, so trees can’t talk. A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength.

It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal- sized billiard balls. Pratchett here draws upon the Greek thauma or "marvel" in creating the name of this basic unit. The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort. The disc, being flat, has no real horizon. Any adventurous sailor 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.“I suppose you wouldn’t happen to know the way out of the forest, possibly, by any chance?”“No. I don’t get about much,” said the tree.“Fairly boring life, I imagine,” said Rincewind.“I wouldn’t know.

I’ve never been anything else,” said the tree. Rincewind looked at it closely.

It seemed pretty much like every other tree he’d seen.“Are you magical?” he said.“No one’s ever said,” said the tree, “I suppose so.”Rincewind thought: I can’t be talking to a tree. Thor: Tales Of Asgard Full Movie Online Free more. If I was talking to a tree I’d be mad, and I’m not mad, so trees can’t talk.“Goodbye,” he said firmly.“Hey, don’t go,” the tree began, and then realized the hopelessness of it all. It watched him stagger off through the bushes, and settled down to feeling the sun on its leaves, the slurp and gurgle of the water in its roots, and the very ebb and flow of its sap in response to the natural tug of the sun and moon. Boring, it thought.

What a strange thing to say. Trees can be bored, of course, beetles do it all the time, but I don’t think that was what he was trying to mean. And: can you actually be anything else? This seems to have produced a paraphrase of these statements which has been widely quoted on the internet as a direct quote from this book (including here, for some years): "Of course I'm sane, when trees start talking to me, I don't talk back." Conceivably this might be a paraphrase made by Pratchett himself, elsewhere, but any alternate sourcing for this variant apparently derived from this passage is welcome, but it seems to have arisen some time after 2.

There had been an unseen observer of all this. It was of course entirely against the rules, but Trymon knew all about rules and had always considered they were for making, not obeying.

He wanted to say all this, and couldn’t. For a man with an itch to see the whole of infinity, Twoflower never actually moved outside his own head. Telling him the truth would be like kicking a spaniel.

Weems might have had a room- temperature IQ, but he knew idiocy when he saw it.

UMD Right Now : : University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md.—The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) at the University of Maryland announced the thirteen municipalities that achieved Sustainable Maryland Certified status for 2. The certifications were bestowed at the Sustainable Maryland Awards during the annual Maryland Municipal League Conference on October 1.

Rockville, Maryland. The Sustainable Maryland program provides support and guidance to municipalities looking for cost- effective and strategic ways to protect their natural assets and revitalize their communities. Using best practices in resource areas like water, energy, planning, health, food and economy, a municipality earns points toward sustainability certification.

Currently, 6. 8 of the state’s 1. The growing number of municipalities that share a vision for state- wide sustainability is a testament to Maryland’s commitment to a resilient future,” said Dan Nees, director of the Environmental Finance Center. Now more than ever, it is critical for local leaders and advocates to take charge of moving their communities towards becoming healthier and more sustainable. It is exciting to see our Sustainable Maryland Certified program continue to empower elected officials and citizens with every new community we welcome.”The newly certified and re- certified (denoted by *) communities are listed below, followed by a notable achievement from their local sustainability efforts: *Town of Bel Air (Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. Bel Air launched a new Community Garden in 2.

Town of Berwyn Heights (Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. Berwyn Heights marked its 2. Tree City USA community.*Town of Boonsboro (Washington County; first certified in 2. Boonsboro established an innovative Forest Mitigation Bank, which off- sets development within town by preserving land within a 4. Town of Burkittsville (Frederick County) – Burkittsville developed several innovative programs to support the local food economy, including a Backyard Produce Exchange, Local Food Directory, an annual Farm- to. Fork Town Picnic, and the Burkittsville Food Forest.*Town of Chesapeake Beach (Calvert County; first certified in 2.

Chesapeake Beach hosted multiple volunteer stream clean- ups along sections of the local Fishing Creek. Additionally, several Osprey nests and monitoring cameras were installed by the town in Fishing Creek Marsh, with a live stream available to the local residents through the town website.*Town of Cheverly (Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. Cheverly amended a previous ordinance to allow bees to be kept on municipal and residential property. This was quickly followed by the installation of two new apiaries in the Community Garden.

City of Frostburg (the first municipality to be certified in Allegany County) – Frostburg city council passed a new local ordinance, allowing residents to keep small numbers of chickens on their property within the city, thereby promoting small- scale, local food production.*City of Greenbelt (Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. Greenbelt’s DPW initiated a food scraps composting program, and has since educated community members about composting at 2. Additionally, the Green Team’s Zero Waste Circle has created an Organics Task Force which is researching city- wide compost options and the respective pricing. Town of Mount Airy (Carroll/Frederick Counties; the first municipality to be certified in Carroll County) – Mount Airy took a step forward in supporting renewable energy by installing an electric charging station in the Municipal Parking Lot at Park Avenue and Cross Street. Town of North Beach (Calvert County) – North Beach secured grant funding from the Fish and Wildlife Foundation to complete a 6.

Walton Beach Nature Preserve.*Town of Riverdale Park (Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. As part of a large sustainable design project within the Mixed- Use Town Center Zone of Riverdale Park, the Riverdale Park Station will be the first certified “LEED - Neighborhood Development” project completed in Prince George’s County.*City of Takoma Park (2. Sustainability Champion” for highest point total award; Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. In addition to being an active participant in the Montgomery County Solar Co- op, Takoma Park has reached maximum municipal roof solar capacity.

The city purchases the rest of its municipal electricity through wind credits, and has plans to complete the installation of 1,5. LED street lights by the end of 2. Town of University Park (Prince George’s County; first certified in 2. University Park funds and promotes the annual town- wide “Porchfest”, an innovative way to build community cohesiveness. A full report on each certified community’s Actions can be viewed here: http: //sustainablemaryland. According to Mike Hunninghake, program manager for Sustainable Maryland, “In a time when municipal leadership is critical to driving change across a number of social and environmental issues, we are pleased to see municipalities throughout Maryland continue to do the hard and necessary work to be good stewards of their communities.

This year’s class of Sustainable Maryland Certified communities serve as beacons along a path forward during these uncertain times.”With the support of the Maryland Municipal League, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Town Creek Foundation, Sustainable Maryland is a free and voluntary program that helps communities choose a direction for their greening efforts; complete their chosen actions with help from program tools, trainings, expert guidance and other resources; and get recognized statewide for their accomplishments. For more information about Sustainable Maryland, please visit www. The Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland works to equip communities with the knowledge, resources and leadership needed to empower decision- making that advances resource management priorities in an innovative and efficient way. Through direct technical assistance, capacity building and program and policy analysis, it strives to move communities towards a more sustainable and resilient future. For more information about the Environmental Finance Center at the University of Maryland, please visit www.