Catalog of Concord’s 'Do-Nothing'

I love this catalog by Emerson- From Emerson's biography by Robert Richardson:

Emerson still enjoyed his walks with Ellery Channing.  Henry Thoreau could at times be wearisome, with his captious paradoxes and general contentiousness, but Ellery was entertaining, even though he was filled in his back teeth with crotchets.  Ellery was officially listed in a Concord census as a "do-nothing."  Of one landscape he complained that it had too many leaves, each one much like all the others and all of them "apt to be agitated by east wind." He had a dog named Professor who seemed to have a sense of humor and who certainly knew more about nature than his master: "The dog tastes, snuffs, rubs, feels, tries everything, everywhere, through miles of bush, brush, grass, water, mud lilies, mountain and sky."  Emerson, Channing, and Professor visited Conantum, a section of Concord, "where we found sassafras, bass, cornel, viburnum, ash, oak, and slippery elm in close vicinity."  They took a long walk out by Bedford, and in one of his endless schemes to funnel money with dignity to his friends Emerson proposed that Channing work up, out of his experiences and Emerson's journals, a book to be called Concord Walking.