"A gun will give you the body,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
A gun will give you the body, not the bird
More by Henry David Thoreau
“We are all of us more or less active physiognomists.”
“We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.”
“It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.”
More on Nature
“Be mindful at all times of the following: the nature of the whole universe, the nature of the part that is me, the relation of the one to the other, the one so vast, the other so small.”
“Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.”
“What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.”
More on Authenticity
“I often accuse my finest acquaintances of an immense frivolity; for, while there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we donot teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual; however, for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.”
“My thing is this; if I'm sick enough to think it, then I'm sick enough to say it.”
“In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.”