rom dependence upon the past and invites us to a richer state of being. Do not remember the past for "[t]he sun shines today[t]here is more wool and flax in the fields[t]here are new lands, new men, new thoughts"(215). Which suggests that because there is always a tomorrow. Man should not focus on the present and be more concentrated on what will be happening in the future. Emerson believed that nature was beautiful and nowhere else on earth could he find the majestic settings of the macrocosm. As Emerson declares "[in] wilderness, [he finds] something more dear and connate than in streets or villages"(216). He cannot find anything more loved and kindred than in towns and cities than what he finds in nature. Unlike Thanatopsis, Emerson focuses on the living and not the defunct. He tells us that "[in] the tranquil landscape, and especially in the distant line of the horizon, man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature"(216). Man's nature is more beautiful than the outside of his exterior. Therefore, according to this attitude, man's life is just a mere dot in this world of blackness.In 1854 Thoreau wrote the short story "of Walden", eighteen years later from the publication "of Nature" and forty-three years later from the publication of "Thanatopsis. In this work Thoreau presents an attitude of examining man's existence in his life. When a man examines his existence he realizes what his life has come to a closure. As Thoreau declares "[he] went to the woods because [he] wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if [he] could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when [he] came to die, discover that [he] had not lived"(2). Thoreau gauges his life and realizes that he has not lived at all. When considering whether he has lived or not, man returns, from his daily life, to nature for answers. This observation can only conclude that man's life is like "a German Confederacywith i...
