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“Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It was the most beautiful evening, with the lake as blue as a cornflower and the sky flecked with rosy clouds. They held their hard-boiled eggs in one hand and a piece of bread and butter in the other, munching happily. There was a dish of salt for everyone to dip their eggs into.
鈥業 don鈥檛 know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,鈥� said George.”
― Five Go Off in a Caravan
鈥業 don鈥檛 know why, but the meals we have on picnics always taste so much nicer than the ones we have indoors,鈥� said George.”
― Five Go Off in a Caravan

“There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a yard of long French bread, a sausage out of which the garlic sang, some cheese which lay down and cried, and a long-necked straw-covered flask wherein lay bottled sunshine shed and garnered on far Southern slopes.”
― The Wind in the Willows
― The Wind in the Willows

“What it means to be a good person, a moral person, is calculated differently in times of crisis than in ordinary circumstances,鈥� she says. She pulls up a slide of people having a picnic by a lake. Blue skies, green trees, white people.
鈥淪uppose you go with some friends to the park to have a picnic. This act is, of course, morally neutral, but if you witness a group of children drowning in the lake and you continue to eat and chat, you have become monstrous.”
― Weather
鈥淪uppose you go with some friends to the park to have a picnic. This act is, of course, morally neutral, but if you witness a group of children drowning in the lake and you continue to eat and chat, you have become monstrous.”
― Weather
“A picnic is more than eating a meal, it is a pleasurable sate of mind.”
― Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
― Picnic: 125 Recipes with 29 Seasonal Menus
“Country picnics always sound nicer than they are. I think we should just have the idea of them, and be pleased with it, and then not go. The only true pleasures are indoors, artificial, and untainted with healthiness.”
― An Accomplished Woman
― An Accomplished Woman
“According to Princess Margaret, "You can't possibly have a picnic without your butler.”
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown
― Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown

“Baskets on bikes are pretty inefficient, and overall pretty stupid鈥� for show, for women and dandies who want to use them as transportation to and from picnics.”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
“Why, it can never be too cold for a picnic. Besides which, we have one every year. It's tradition. And you must never break a tradition,' she said solemnly. 'I firmly believe that old ones are to be cherished and new ones cultivated as often as one feels inclined...”
― Upon a Frosted Star
― Upon a Frosted Star
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