Quote – Thoreau on “Hunting”

You seek the bird...

but get only the body!

A gun gives you the body, not the bird.

Henry David Thoreau

"The Hunters at rest" by Vasily Grigorevich Perov (1871)

Credits: Wikimedia Commons.

• Perov’s Hunters – Public domain.
• Flying Pigeon – Alan D. Wilson.  CC-SA 2.5.
• Dead Pigeon – Kulmalukko. CC-3.0 Unported.