There is this scene sometime in the beginning of the movie where Williams has the students to stand on the desk as a reminder to took at the world in a different way, just as Thoreau intended when he wrote, "The universe is wider than our views of it".
The other thing i want to post here are the lines by Henry David Thoreau which were read at the beginning of each meeting.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately,
to front only the essential facts of life,
and see if I could not learn what it had to teach,
and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived …
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear;
nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,
to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life,
to cut a broad swath and shave close,
to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms..."
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