# Quote — Laurens Van Der Post, A Walk with a White Bushman

> The man of the Kalahari is Esau and we are Jacob, and there is a great gulf between us. This sense of property, of possession that we have is utterly foreign to the Esaus of the world. We have, he is.

- Author: [Laurens Van Der Post](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post.md)
- Book: [A Walk with a White Bushman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/a-walk-with-a-white-bushman.md)
- Page: 159
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurens_van_der_Post#A_Walk_with_a_White_Bushman_(1986)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/a-walk-with-a-white-bushman/the-man-of-the

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> What is most threatening and destructive in human society today is the human being who is split in his own nucleus: it is the fission in the modern soul which makes nuclear fission so dangerous — he is a split atom. He has got to heal himself, make himself whole.

p. 50 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/a-walk-with-a-white-bushman/what-is-most.md)

> Somehow we should learn to know that our problems are our most precious possessions. They are the raw materials of our salvation: no problem — no redemption.

p. 71 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/a-walk-with-a-white-bushman/somehow-we-should.md)

> The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

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