Emerson heard of it, and invited him to come to his house and hear the lectures read there, which he did.
People used to say that Thoreau imitated Emerson, and Lowell has made this charge in his satire, "A Fable for Critics"; There comes -- --, for instance; to see him's rare sport, Tread in Emerson's tracks with legs painfully short.
I think there is nothing in it.

Thoreau's style is certainly fresh and original.

His tastes and thoughts are his own.
His peculiarities of bearing and behavior came to him naturally from his ancestors of the isle of Guernsey.
I retained his friendship to his death.

I have taken many a long walk with him.

I used to go down to see him in the winter days in my vacations in his hut near Walden.