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Transcendentalism is used frequently as main topics in the stories “Nature” and Walden. These two themes are heavily concentrated on though these two stories are similar on the aspects of themes, though they differ on the thoughts of civilization and governments. These two stories also differ in the realms of creativity in the story. Walden was a story written by Thoreau, which is fairly similar to the contrasting book “Nature”. Emerson who uses his thoughts on transcendentalism to play a key role in the story writes “Nature”. Emerson uses the themes of Nature and God to represent and reflect nature as transcendentalism. Thoreau stresses the relationship with God and Nature at the same time. The two themes are used at once to direct the story in the path that the Thoreau wants it to lead. This is easily shown in the statement, “ In the woods we return to reason and faith.” Both themes are quite similar though it is said that Emerson is mo...

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