1. In the introduction of “Nature”, Ralph Waldo Emerson is talking about how this generation focuses too much on the past. Emerson claims that the people living in his era focus on the knowledge and traditions of the past. Emerson believes that they should, instead be focuses on experiencing God and nature directly; or in the present. Also, Emerson states, “there is more wool and flax in the fields. There are new lands, new men, new thoughts. Let us demand our own works and law and worship”. This in a way is a call to his people telling them to get up and go experience something new.
2. I think that our age and the people in our generation are more adventurous then people were back when Ralph Waldo Emerson was alive. We like to discover new
2. I think that our age and the people in our generation are more adventurous then people were back when Ralph Waldo Emerson was alive. We like to discover new