Life Will Find A Way

命は道を拓く (inochi wa michi wo hiraku): life finds a way, or more exactly, life opens one. 命 inochi is life, the life in a living body; 道 michi is a way, a path; 拓く hiraku is to open in the land-clearing sense, to break new ground, the spelling the dictionary keeps for pioneering. The line is Ian Malcolm's in Jurassic Park (1993), in the screenplay life finds a way, his answer to whether an all-female population could breed; the will on the design is the smoothing the saying took on afterward. The Japanese is the house's, and 拓く is the verb that keeps Malcolm's meaning: in his sentence, life makes its way.