Emerson and Thoreau have similar view points on life, nature, and our soul. Both Emerson and Thoreau believe that you should live life rather then watch it. Emerson lived on Brook Farm and used his experiences there to enhance his essays. In Brook Farm, a story, Emerson talks about philosophy and explains that you have to work to receive what you want and that's how life is. Emerson argues that habit and tradition have become …showed first 75 words of 712 total…

…showed last 75 words of 712 total…works in the aspects of life, nature, and our soul. They view the soul as the most important part of ourselves. . If these three things are realized and fulfilled they believed that one can develop or achieve one's full potential. We can go to nature to "renew ourselves," we can make our own poetry and philosophy, and we should look to the prsent and the future, not the past-past compared to "dry bones." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**