“A gun gives you the body, not the bird.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in Talks with Ralph Waldo Emerson http://books.google.com/books?id=IhA6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22A+gun+he+said+gives+you+the+body+not+the+bird%22&pg=PA86#v=onepage (1890) by Charles Johnson Woodbury

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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862

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