# Quote — Laurens Van Der Post, Venture To The Interior

> Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

- Author: [Laurens Van Der Post](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post.md)
- Book: [Venture To The Interior](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/venture-to-the-interior.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Laurens_van_der_Post#Venture_to_the_Interior_(1951)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/venture-to-the-interior/life-is-its

## More from this book

> It is the not-yet in the now,
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> The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist
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> Hanging the blossom on the bough.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/venture-to-the-interior/it-is-the.md)

> There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living: a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/laurens-van-der-post/venture-to-the-interior/there-is-a-way.md)