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The Thoreau Institute
at Walden Woods Library
Thoreau's
Life & Writings
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Henry D. Thoreau Mis-Quotations Pages
“It seems
when my legs begin walking, my mind begins working . . . any writing
I do sitting down is wooden.”
Misattributed in
"Educational Balance Is Needed in America’s Overmentalized Schools”
by Joel Kirsch in the on-line edition, but not in the print edition, of
The Athlete’s View
(Volume 7, number 2, Spring 1998):
“The German philosopher Friedrich
Nietzsche once said, ‘Never trust a thought you came upon sitting
down. The muscles must be in celebration with the mind.’ Henry David
Thoreau had a similar perspective: ‘It seems when my legs begin
walking, my mind begins working . . . any writing I do sitting down
is wooden.’”
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