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"Do you think there are more animals?" -Alan Grant
"I can't say. Can you?" -Marty Gutierrez
"No. I can't say " -Grant
"But you suspect?" -Guitierrez
"Possibly there are. Yes." -Grant pg. 399

"Grant sat back in his seat. He thought of the dinosaurs standing on the beach, and he wondered where they would migrate if they could, and he realized he would never know, and he felt sad and relieved in the same moment." Pg. 397

"...until it seemed the entire island was glowing, a diminishing bright spot in the darkening night." Pg. 397

"...one by one, the animals moved back into the shade of the palm trees at the edge of the mangrove swamp, and there they stood, lined up in their peculiar fashion, watching the ocean. They stared fixed to the south." Pg. 393

"They want to migrate." -Alan Grant pg. 395

"Crippled animals." -John Hammond thought pg. 391

"Lying on his back on the hillside, he began to feel strangely relaxed, detached from himself. But he realized that nothing was wrong. No error had been made. Malcolm was quite incorrect in his analysis. Hammond lay very still as a child in its crib, and he felt wonderfully peaceful." Pg. 392

"It's a colony." -Alan Grant pg. 386

"But, Alan-- do you notice anything funny about them?" -Ellie Sattler
"Like what?" -Grant
"How they arrange themselves spatially. They're falling into some kind of a pattern or arrangement in the room." -Sattler pg. 388

"The characteristic of vision. That great sweeping act of imagination which evoked a marvelous park, where children pressed against the fences, wondering at the extraordinary creatures, come alive from their storybooks. Real vision. The ability to see the future. The ability to marshal resources to make that future vision a reality." Pg. 380

"Everything... looks different... on the other side." -Ian Malcolm pg. 382

"The animals are mingling with each other. Populations reaching equilibrium-- a true Jurassic equilibrium." -Alan Grant pg. 369

"You've shirked responsibility all along, from the very beginning." -Grant pg. 370

"And you think that's what happened to dinosaurs?" -Donald Gennaro
"Until we have a better explanation, yes. I think that's what happened. Now, shall we find this nest?" -Grant pg. 373

"The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us." -Ian Malcolm pg. 365

"My point is that life on earth can take care of itself." -Malcolm pg. 366

"Let's be clear. The planet is not in jeopardy. We are in jeopardy. We haven't got the power to destroy the planet-- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves." -Malcolm pg. 367

"That happened before. It means auxiliary power is low. You have to turn on main power." -Alan Grant pg. 359

"The hard part is just beginning." -Alan Grant pg. 363

"But you decide you won't be at the mercy of nature, and from that moment on you're in deep trouble, because you cant do it. Yet you have made systems that require you do it. And you can't do it-- and you never have-- and you never will. Don't confuse things... Your powers are lush less than your dreams of reason would have you believe." -Ian Malcolm pg. 349