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Dr. Grace Augustine : [ to Selfridge ] Those trees were sacred to the Omaticaya in a way you can't imagine.
Selfridge : You know what? You throw a stick in the air around here it falls on some sacred fern, for Christ's sake!
Dr. Grace Augustine : I'm not talking about pagan voodoo here - I'm talking about something REAL and measurable in the biology of the forest.
Selfridge : Which is *what* exactly?
Dr. Grace Augustine : What we think we know - is that there's some kind of electrochemical communication between the roots of the trees. Like the synapses between neurons. Each tree has ten to the fourth connections to the trees around it, and there are ten to the twelfth trees on Pandora...
Selfridge : That's a lot, I'm guessing.
Dr. Grace Augustine : That's more connections than the human brain. You get it? It's a network - a global network. And the Na'vi can access it - they can upload and download data - memories - at sites like the one you just destroyed.
Selfridge : [ after a stunned pause ] What the HELL have you people been smoking out there? [ beginning to laugh ]
Selfridge : They're just. Goddamn. Trees.
Dr. Grace Augustine : You need to wake up, Parker. The wealth of this world isn't in the ground - it's all around us. The Na'vi know that, and they're fighting to defend it. If you wanna share this world with them, *you* need to understand *them*.
Col. Quaritch : I think we understand them just fine. Thanks to Jake here. [ Jake and Grace share a look of horror as Quaritch begins to play Jake's video log ]
Selfridge : You know what? You throw a stick in the air around here it falls on some sacred fern, for Christ's sake!
Dr. Grace Augustine : I'm not talking about pagan voodoo here - I'm talking about something REAL and measurable in the biology of the forest.
Selfridge : Which is *what* exactly?
Dr. Grace Augustine : What we think we know - is that there's some kind of electrochemical communication between the roots of the trees. Like the synapses between neurons. Each tree has ten to the fourth connections to the trees around it, and there are ten to the twelfth trees on Pandora...
Selfridge : That's a lot, I'm guessing.
Dr. Grace Augustine : That's more connections than the human brain. You get it? It's a network - a global network. And the Na'vi can access it - they can upload and download data - memories - at sites like the one you just destroyed.
Selfridge : [ after a stunned pause ] What the HELL have you people been smoking out there? [ beginning to laugh ]
Selfridge : They're just. Goddamn. Trees.
Dr. Grace Augustine : You need to wake up, Parker. The wealth of this world isn't in the ground - it's all around us. The Na'vi know that, and they're fighting to defend it. If you wanna share this world with them, *you* need to understand *them*.
Col. Quaritch : I think we understand them just fine. Thanks to Jake here. [ Jake and Grace share a look of horror as Quaritch begins to play Jake's video log ]
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