命は道を拓く inochi wa michi o hiraku Life Will Find A Way

命は道を拓く says that life does not wait for a way; it breaks one open. 拓く is to open in the land-clearing sense, to break new ground. Life clears its own path the way a settler clears a field. 命 is the life of a living thing, so the line reads of life as a whole and of one life at once. The English is Ian Malcolm's line in Michael Crichton's Jurassic Park.

The Japanese is the house's, and 拓く is the verb that keeps Malcolm's meaning: in his sentence, life makes its way.

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