Emerson in Nature

"God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes." Emerson believed that the present generations do not have integrity and that we just pay attention to the past generation. We write about the past and focus on what has been, instead of what is. We are trying to find the answers of life through the past, but truly we can find everything we need from the present. We don't need the past to answer questions, we need to look within and find new, better, and different answers. Why look back, when we can create original ideas? We can do better than the past, and I agree with that. I agree that we need to stop looking to the past to find what we believe or know, and we need to look ahead. We can create so much more amazing things when we look forward, like technology and philosophy, instead of ploughing history into our brains and saying that those ideas are more important or better than today's ideas. In history's respect, I also believe that there are things that we can learn from the past, but those ideas are not as important as new ones that we can create on our own. Emerson was very intelligent and I believe this quote sums up his main ideas that I completely agree with.