Only trees and grass and animals. In fact, these Bushmen have never seen a stone or a...

Narrator: The one characteristic which really makes the Bushmen different from all the other races on earth is that they have no sense of ownership at all. Where they live, there's really nothing you CAN own: only trees and grass and animals. In fact, these Bushmen have never seen a stone or a rock in their lives. The hardest things they know are wood and bone. They live in a gentle world, where nothing is as hard as rock, steel or concrete.

from all the other races on Earth is the fact that they have no sense of ownership at all. Where they live, there's really nothing you can own-- only trees and grass and animals. In fact, these Bushmen have never seen a stone or a rock in their lives. The hardest things they know are wood and bone. They live in a gentle world, where nothing is as hard as rock, or steel, or concrete. Only 600 miles to the south, there's a vast city... and here you find civilized man. Civilized man refused to adapt himself to his environment. Instead, he adapted his environment to suit him, so he built cities, roads, vehicles, machinery, and he put up power lines to run his labor-saving devices, but somehow, he didn't know when to stop. The more he improved his surroundings to make his life easier, the more complicated he made it, so now his children are sentenced to 10 to 15 years of school just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into. And civilized man,