Man and the Natural World Quotes in Jurassic Park

How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)

Quote #1

She was amazed that it would come so close, but she remembered that this was a national park. All the animals in the park would know that they are protected. (1.1.47)

When human beings try to contain or preserve nature, the natural world changes as a result. Animals don't behave in a national park the way they do out in the wild. These environments are different. This fact creates the illusion that nature can be controlled, but it's just that—an illusion.

Quote #2

Everywhere, extensive and elaborate planting emphasized the feeling that they were entering a new world, a prehistoric tropical world, and leaving the normal world behind. (3.17.1)

Jurassic Park is an attempt to re-create a past natural world for human entertainment. Like the present-day natural world, it evades human control, even more so because it's so alien to the humans.

Quote #3

"We have real dinosaurs out there now. That's what people want to see." (3.21.70)

Hammond believes that his cloned dinosaurs are real. In a sense, they are: they are alive and made from real dinosaur DNA. In another sense, they are not real: they have been modified. They've been engineered to behave in ways real dinosaurs would not have behaved.