Why Do We Explore?

Whether we know it or not, we are natural-born explorers. There are many reasons why we explore. From birth we learn about life and how it works by exploring. No one can be satisfied for very long without exploring. Whether you are talking to someone next to you or looking around the room, you are exploring.

People are curious about everything. We learn something new every day. If you get bored, you automatically look for something to do. That is the way we are. We like to learn new things. We also like to understand things and how they work. From the time you were born, you have been finding out how things work by exploring them. Curiosity makes us explorers.

Exploration gives us the sense that anything is possible. Exploration leads to knowledge and understanding, and means that you make the world a better place as you explore. People have always tried to leave the world a better place for future generations. Exploration is one way we can do that. It is a gift that people of the past can give the people of the future.

Exploration opens up new places and new ideas. North and South America were once called the “New World” because the peopleof Europe discovered it when they thought only an ocean existed

there. The Polynesians believed that there were always new islands to be found in the oceans, and continually sought them out. With no new lands to discover on Earth, what are our choices?

New places can be helpful to us because they have raw materials and natural resources. New experiences bring us new knowledge. Exploring our world, or exploring beyond our world creates jobs and technology that make our world better. We might look for new ideas such as new sources of energy to make life better for ourselves and future generations.