Emerson and Thoreau were both good at writing and studied in the same college and they both use different technique to express their idea and thoughts to people. Emerson was born 1803-1882, lives in Massachusetts and studies at Harvard. He met Words Worth, Coleridge and Carlye in England in 1883 and was known for challenging traditional thoughts after publishing his first book titled "Nature", which is the best expression of his transcendentalism. Thoreau was born 1817-1862; he lived in Massachusetts and studied at Harvard like Emerson and became Emerson's friend in 1837. Thoreau is both a romantic and a naturalist. The relationship between man and nature in Emerson and Thoreau is different from “Nature,” in which he establishes a new way for the nascent American society to view the world. In that period the American culture is strongly influenced by the European one so Emerson through his speech wants to suggest the true American culture and ask its citizens to preserve the essence of the true American culture, but according to American history the world began with a single man and man is divided into many other men so that a work can be completed successfully. Due to the increase in division among men, men no longer work effectively with each other to get a better job. Emerson states that a true scholar must have great knowledge of nature to help increase self-awareness. Nature helps individuals find new ways of living in this world. It says that the relationship between man and nature is interdependent and they are parallel to each other so that we can understand our soul. Emerson was a good writer where every person appreciated his work because his writing is more about a system of thought. ..... middle of paper ......ble in the world and all objects in nature require such an impression of wisdom, happiness and simplicity to survive. He urges people to exploit the pleasure of nature with a certain self-control because nature always has the colors of the spirit and says that nature is the component of the universe. According to Thoreau, Emersosn and Transcendentalism Summary and Analysis of Emerson's “Nature” Emerson states that “a man can grasp the underlying meaning of the physical world by living in harmony with nature and loving truth and virtue” Works Cited1. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, June 30, 2005, http;//plato.stanford.edu/entries/thoreau/2. Thoreau, Emerson and Transcendentalismemerson “Nature” summary and analysis, http://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/t/thoreau-emerson-and-transcendentalism/emersons-nature/summary-and-analysis.