Exploration destroys the environment
Counterargument: We go to the Antarctic to study it and explore how to avoid the destruction of the Antarctic environment, so the modern sense of exploration is to protect the natural heritage. We go to Antarctica to study it and find out how to prevent the Antarctic environment from being destroyed, so modern exploration is for better protection of the environment, if the other side must confuse the two, then may I ask the other side is the exploration more damaging to the environment or is the non-exploration more damaging?
Waste of money:
Every step that human beings take is the history of continuous exploration, and we can't equate this kind of exploration with money, the valuable information and experience we gained from the exploration, the welfare brought to human beings is far from being able to be measured by money, not to mention, what is the ultimate and fundamental purpose of the invention of money for human beings, it is for human beings to survive and develop in the long run, if we are ignorant of the nature, then we can't make money for it. Because of our ignorance of nature and lead to human disaster, then when the money can be of what use, the human race is extinct, money can also be used for what
Time can not be used to measure the value of adventure, we spend a little bit of time on the road of adventure will give mankind a long time to survive
Danger:
Human beings, if the danger of the low I am afraid that it will not be today, we will not be able to use the money for the survival of mankind, but for the survival of the human race. There will not be today, our forefathers bowed down in front of floods and beasts will not have our today, the danger paid by the explorer will be the happiness of the people, not to mention that, in modern technology, the danger of human exploration has been greatly reduced, we are not in favor of blind adventure, we want to explore the spirit of a kind of scientific and rational spirit of adventure
Colonization
In the modern world, this is still a problem, is it a problem? Is this still a problem? Even in the modern times, the human exploration brought about the colonial rule, but the other side should not forget that behind the colonial rule is also the expansion of human modernization, they also brought the advanced science and culture to the colonies, and prayed for the catalyst for the modernization of these countries, even though it is full of blood, but the history of the development of mankind is a history of blood, even if there is no exploration, this kind of The bloodshed would not have disappeared, and there are examples in modern history that are not colonization, such as Zheng He's voyages to the West
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Why do some people love adventure?
It has to do with a substance in the human brain called dopamine. Dopamine is a happy substance. When the brain produces this substance, people feel happy.
Dangerous situations make people highly alert and excited, and they secrete more dopamine. Adventure makes people feel happier than usual. That's why so many people go exploring.
Adventure is an act of conquering nature, but it requires that you understand it well and have the ability to conquer it. Successful exploration builds a strong sense of self-confidence, because it is often difficult to do. Adventure can experience the smallness of human beings, so as to cherish life. Adventure is also a kind of exploration, is different from animals, if people do not have this spirit, it is impossible to evolve into a human being.
In the long history of mankind, there are six amazing explorers whose exploratory actions may have changed the whole world!
Today, these short stories and those terrifying experiences seem more like a series of dramas (some of which, indeed, have been made into movies or television): whether it was in the rough seas or in the arid heat of the deserts, these six intrepid explorers, braving it all, ultimately discovered parts of the Earth that no one had originally known about.
If you think they're no big deal -- just someone who fought a lion and someone who swallowed a mouse ...... Then, if you've got the guts, go exploring too! ......
Ponce de Leon: Discovering the "Sunshine State"
Expedition result: discovery of Florida
Date: 1513 ... ...
Once upon a time, there was a legend of a spring called the Fountain, and the first person to taste it would be rewarded with riches, fame and the chance to be young again. But the problem was that no one knew exactly where this legendary spring was.
Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon set sail from South America and traveled as far as the islands of Turkey and San Salvador without finding it. Although Ponce did not find the Fountain, he did gain wealth and fame as the first European to set foot on the land, naming it "Pascua Florida," or Florida as we call it today.
Mark Polo: Into China
Expedition: One of the first Europeans to visit China
Time: Beginning in 1271
During the Middle Ages, while the rest of his friends were still engrossed in a game of marbles, Marco Polo's father and uncle asked him if he wanted to travel with them on horseback from Italy to China. Now, let's see what's really incredible: this adventure-loving 17-year-old boy didn't hesitate to say yes!
Marco says that during his travels, it was as if he heard the call of death in the desert. But when he arrived at the huge and splendid Yuan Dadu (capital of the Yuan Dynasty), he felt it was all worth it. Because everything was so magical: paper (coins) that could be bought, colorful tattoos, rhinoceroses that looked like mythical unicorns...
Marco wrote about this trip in a very popular book, Marco Polo's Travels. Later, it was this book that evoked the adventurous spirit of another young Italian: Christopher Columbus.
Ferdinand Magellan: A Journey Around the World
Achievement of Adventure: First Voyage Around the World
Time: Beginning in 1519
At the time of Ferdinand Magellan, it was believed that the Earth was round, but none of the men traveled around the globe to prove this fact. So the matter of proving the shape of the Earth became incumbent on Magellan.
A terrible storm nearly wiped out his fleet. Three years later, only five ships had made it to the finish line, and it was these ships that brought back the first of the circumnavigators.
David Livingston: "Breaking" into Africa
Expedition: First expedition to Central Africa
Time: 1841-1873
For Scottish missionary David Livingston, crossing the deserts, rainforests, and mountains of Africa meant realizing his own dream. meant the realization of his own dream. He fought lions and nearly lost an arm; he discovered one of the world's largest waterfalls and named it "Victoria" after the Queen of England.
He went blind while searching for the source of the Nile River, and five years later, journalist Henry Steen found Dr. Livingston in front of a small hut with the famous slogan: "Dr. Livingston, I think I do!" It's a slogan that has inspired countless subsequent explorers.
Robert Peary: Reaching the North Pole
Expedition result: first to reach the North Pole
Time: 1909
Robert Peary headed north with his trusted companion, Mather Hanson (another gifted explorer), and four other members of the team. En route to the North Pole, they shoveled 15-meter-high ice peaks, endured extremely cold weather, and encountered an endless fog - one that seemed like the black smoke rising from the burning of the entire North American prairie.
When they finally reached the North Pole, a raggedly dressed Peary was thrilled to be at the top of the world, waving an American flag hand-sewn by his wife.
Rod Amundsen: Reaching the South Pole
Expedition result: the first to reach the South Pole
Time: 1911
On the way to the North Pole, Rod Amundsen suddenly decided to go to the South Pole. He thought it would be "cooler" to be the first to reach the South Pole than to explore the already-explored land. "I will beat you there!" Amundsen spread the word to his competitor, explorer Robert Scott, who was en route to the South Pole.
In the coldest place in the world, Amundsen relied on dogs to drag his sled across the ice-covered wasteland. This proved to be a brilliant idea. Because, Scott's choice of a pony for transportation turned out to be awful, with the horse's hooves slipping and sliding on the snow. In the end, Amundsen reached the South Pole four weeks before Scott.
Christopher Columbus (145l-1506) was a famous Spanish navigator and a pioneer of geographical discovery. Columbus was a believer in the doctrine of the earth's circle when he was young, and he was very devoted to Marco Polo, who had been a prisoner in Genoa. He was a great admirer of Marco Polo, who was imprisoned in Genoa, and aspired to be a navigator.
He crossed the Atlantic Ocean four times between 1492 and 1502 and discovered the Americas, which made him a famous navigator.
Columbus was an Italian with a love of adventure since childhood. He read Marco Polo's Travels and wanted to go to India and China. At that time, the geocircle theory has been very popular, Columbus is also convinced. He successively asked the kings of Portugal, Spain, Britain and France for financial support to realize his plan of sailing westward to reach the eastern countries, but all of them were rejected. On the one hand, the theory of the earth circle is not yet very complete, many people do not believe, Columbus as a charlatan. Once, in Spain on Columbus plan on the special review committee, a member asked Columbus: even if the earth is round, sailing west can reach the east, back to the port of departure, then there is a section of the voyage is bound to be from the earth below the upward slope of the sailing ship, how can climb up it? To this question, the eloquent, eloquent Columbus also only speechless. On the other hand, at that time, the Western countries of the East in addition to the traditional demand for material wealth silk, porcelain, tea, the most important is spices and gold. One of the spices is Europeans living and eating and cooking essential materials, demand is very large, and the local production is not. At that time, these commodities were mainly transported through the traditional sea and land transport routes. Vested interests in these commodities were also strongly opposed to Columbus' plan to open up new shipping routes. Columbus lobbied everywhere for more than ten years to realize his plan. It was not until 1492 that the Queen of Spain was able to recognize the heroes, and she convinced the King that she would even take out her own personal money to subsidize Columbus, so that Columbus's plan could be implemented.
On August 3, 1492, Columbus was dispatched by the King of Spain, with a letter to the monarch of India and the Emperor of China, led three hundred tons of sailing ships, from the Spanish Barros port sails out of the Atlantic Ocean, straight to the west to sail. After seventy days and nights of hard sailing, October 12, 1492 early morning finally found land. Columbus thought he had reached India. Later, it was known that Columbus boarded the land, belonging to the Bahamas in the Caribbean Sea in Central America, he named it San Salvador.
On March 15, 1493, Columbus returned to Spain. He repeated his westward voyage three more times thereafter, ascending many more shores of the Americas. Until his death in 1506, he believed that he had reached India. Later, an Italian scholar named Amerigo, after more expeditions, realized that these places Columbus had reached were not India, but a new continent that had been unknown. Columbus had discovered the new continent. However, this continent was named after the person who confirmed that it was a new continent: Amerika.
Subsequently, there have been various disagreements about who first discovered America. The conclusion that Columbus discovered the New World is indisputable. This is because at that time, the people of Europe and even Asia, Africa, the entire old continent really do not know that there is this continent on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. As to who reached America first, it is a different question, because the indigenous people of America themselves were migrated from Asia in ancient times. China, Oceania's ancestors sailed to the Americas is also extremely likely, but these can not change the fact that Columbus discovered the New World.
Columbus's voyage was the beginning of the age of navigation. The opening of new routes changed the course of world history. It shifted the route of overseas trade from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast. From then on, the West finally emerged from the darkness of the Middle Ages and began its unstoppable rise to world dominance, and in the centuries that followed, achieved maritime supremacy. A new industrial civilization became the mainstay of the world's economic development.
The significance of adventure can be referred to the meaning of field trips
1. Life is movement
Life is movement, movement makes people evergreen, this is a common sense. This is a common understanding. It is especially meaningful for the "work bugs" (the name given to those who can only work but not relax) and the white-collar workers who have been engaged in mental labor for a long time in the urban areas. We all agree on the health effects of some regular sports activities, such as basketball, table tennis, running, swimming, etc., and the use of holidays to travel to the mountains, hiking, can also play a fitness role. The former is subject to fewer time and space constraints, but the activities are more simple; while the latter has certain requirements and conditions for time and funds, but its benefits are incomparable to the former. Of course, the active pursuit of many forms of sports is worthy of strong encouragement. Field trip is a comprehensive sense of cultural and sports activities, sports performance in we must physically go to the foot, hiking, do a variety of seldom do the usual chores; and cultural activities are more rich, it can be said that sports activities is the carrier, while cultural activities is a higher sense of the content.
2. Return to nature
With the high modernization of urban life, people are farther away from nature, all the contact in life is man-made objects, people live in the concrete jungle rather than in the forest, filled with man-made airwaves, sound, light and smell of man-made objects, etc., and more serious is the by-products of human civilization --What is more serious is the by-product of human civilization - the seriousness of industrial and domestic pollution. The human body is a natural thing, but people are living in an unnatural environment, and the impact on human health of prolonged disengagement from contact with nature has long been proven. Therefore, returning to nature has become a widespread trend in the world in recent years, to go to nature, to feel the magnetic field of nature, the wonderful sound of nature, fresh air, clean water, warm sunshine, and gentle moonlight, etc. We can only go to nature more often if we are able to enjoy it. We can only live like a son of nature, not a robot, if we go to nature often.
3. Growth of insight
Travel is bound to leave their familiar environment, voluntarily or involuntarily have to contact with new things and environments, which enriches our life experience, growth of insight. Some of the insights may be from the book, movie and television, but not personally action you will always be only a shallow understanding. Ancient saying: "read ten thousand books, travel ten thousand miles", "absolutely know the matter to be practiced" is the truth. And there is a lot of knowledge and experience is impossible to get from books, learned. We are traveling in the growth of insight, enrich the life experience is not a very good thing, there is a rich life is not wasted life, there can be to the younger generation to brag about the "material". I can't get to the end of my days without knowing that the fungus was born from the rotting wood.
4. physical and mental relaxation
In our modern life, due to the survival and development of the drive, people are always busy to make a living, fast-paced, efficient modern life will be the human nerve and life * to a high degree of tension. Long-term such a life, people's eyes become shallow floating, mental deformity development, the body is prone to a variety of modern urban syndromes, health conditions, such as day-to-day. People long for a complete physical and mental relaxation, and to maintain a healthy psychological condition. Although there are a lot of similar industries in the city to serve this purpose, such as what sauna, all kinds of massage and some recreational sports, etc., they are mostly a kind of appearance, temporary relaxation, treating the surface but not the inside. The real physical and mental relaxation and psychological adjustment is best to go back to nature, standing on top of the mountain, the world, "swinging chest layer of clouds, a range of small mountains," the kind of mood should be a wide range of oil, the world's worldly strife, fame, glory and disgrace will become diluted, and experience what is the "Tanya", what is "nothing, nothing", to realize what kind of life and outlook on life in order to maintain a true self, when to achieve this state is the essence of the physical and mental relaxation, the world. When you return to the city, you will smile more and worry less. Of course, we put into the embrace of nature is not to escape from the city of all the bad, should be a positive adjustment of themselves, recognize themselves, transform themselves, and from nature to draw new ideas, new energy, into the times and life more meaningful pace.
5. Make friends
Traveling, a person alone to find the ancient style of travel has its own unique significance, but and some like-minded friends travel more meaningful. Most of the partnership out of the trip is not always colleagues, classmates, but from different units of similar interests, which not only provides a good opportunity to make friends, expanding their social surface, but also through this opportunity to exchange and discuss a variety of issues of mutual interest and information. As we always wear a "mask" in the daily work, once to an environment with no stakes, each other will open their hearts and get along without restraint, true feelings and true intentions of the real face are naturally revealed in such an environment to make friends is always long-lasting, sincere. If then through a relatively difficult field trip, in the process of helping each other, *** with the process of overcoming various difficulties, the spark of friendship, and even the spark of love will burst out. It will be "staged" a variety of "Lushan love", "Huangshan love".
Of course, there may be a few people with various "problems" to join in, become the travel of the discordant "spark", we should try to help him to improve, of course, if he is "stubborn "The first thing you need to do is to ask him to go see a psychiatrist.
6. cultivate sentiment
When we return to nature with nature, visit nature, close to nature, make friends, exercise physical fitness, growth of knowledge and other aspirations to go out and travel, but also cultivate sentiment, cultivate taste, it is self-evident. Ancient saying: "benevolent people enjoy their mountains, wise people enjoy their water", through the mountains and water to cultivate feelings has long been a life pursuit of the ancients. Ancient people so, this person should be carried forward.
7. survival skills
In the city life can not only adapt to life in the city, the field will not know what to do, do not know edible plants, will not be able to fire, cooking, will not be able to identify the direction and so on. These as a natural person should have the knowledge if not, once out of the city familiar with life in the wilderness, even if you have gold and silver, will face a realistic survival problem, the survival of the fittest, not the death. In foreign countries, wilderness survival education is more common, some from elementary school on the course. Therefore, this book introduces some knowledge of wilderness travel and survival. On the basis of learning, often go to the wilderness activities will figure out the survival of the wilderness skills. Once it happens to be in the wilderness in the helpless environment will be able to cope with it. No one can guarantee that such a situation will not occur in his life.
8. Understanding the national conditions
In our country, will be in a fairly long period of time, there will be a large gap between urban and rural areas. As a person living in the city should not only see their own living environment, but the countryside farmers have no perceptual understanding of the life of their compatriots. Recognize China's national conditions without understanding the rural areas is not possible, China is a large agricultural country, 90% of the population in rural areas, and there are still many rural populations have not yet solved the problem of temperature
Saturation, living conditions are still very poor. As a Chinese, to recognize our national conditions is very important, whether working in government departments, or working in the enterprise, there is no a correct concept of national conditions, you can not do a good job of government decision-making and business operations. It is not possible to understand the national conditions without going to the countryside, especially some poor villages. Therefore, we travel to the wild countryside, we can not just focus on their own travel life, near the village and not into the village and not visit, and peasant brothers at arm's length, relatively speechless is a bad thing. In fact, this is only with the road for the thing, more on the country, the people's understanding of the situation and some unexpected gains. If you can let their children to go along, together with the understanding, recognize our country, especially to the countryside is still in the poverty line, perhaps they do not have to manipulate the big bang to teach them how to struggle hard, thrifty life.
Section 2, the joy of field trips
1. Landscape aesthetics
To travel to the field of a great purpose is to feel the awareness of the beauty of nature, which is not only the significance of field trips, at the same time, is one of the greatest joys. Nature is full of all kinds of beauty "elements", we learn to understand the beauty of nature, is a field trip to a high level of harvest. If summarized, the natural beauty of the "elements" have the following aspects:
Morphological beauty: nature has their own unique form, lines, shapes, etc., and constitute a natural different categories of each other's overall form. Such as mountains, hills, canyons, rivers and streams, the Gobi and so on.
Color: the color of nature is ever-changing, colorful: colorful neon rainbow, green wilderness, colorful flowers, orchid-colored streams and so on. The color of nature is not only rich and colorful, but also constantly changing. This is something we cannot see in the city.
The beauty of sound: the thrilling sound of thunder and lightning, the sound of raindrops, the sound of waterfalls, the sound of pine waves, water, birds and apes, autumn insects, etc. If there is no such wonderful sound of nature, it is hard to imagine that human beings will be living in what kind of a world.
Dynamic beauty: the wind and clouds, tidal wave, sun and moon, waterfalls and other waterfalls, especially people's favorite sunrise, sunset, rapids and waterfalls, etc., these are the dynamic beauty of nature.
2. Observation of living creatures
To recognize and watch all kinds of living creatures is not only to enrich our knowledge of nature, but also a kind of natural aesthetics. There is a lot of fun in this. From the classification we should recognize what are animals, plants; what are mammals, birds, insects, what are reptiles, aquatic animals and so on. What are their characteristics, how to tell them apart, and so on. We will be from the contact, viewing in the taste of all the beauty of living things, and feel endless fun.
3. Harvest the gifts of nature
Traveling in nature, as long as we pay attention, we will find a lot of natural things worthy of our collection collection: thousands of tree roots, crystal clear rainbows, different shapes of leaves, and even valuable herbs, stones, antiquities and so on. These gifts of nature and its history, just our hands can be obtained, bring home, not only can taste, savor, but also to friends to proclaim their own gain.
4. Folklore of the appreciation
China is a multi-ethnic country, 56 nationalities have their own unique national customs, festivals and their customs, many festivals and their customs are envied by us. And to appreciate the rich ethnic culture of each ethnic group and its customs, we can only go out of the city, to the mountains and villages and ethnic villages can be really contacted. Recognize the various ethnic groups in our country is not only an important meaning of travel, is the understanding of the national conditions, but also one of the joys of field trips.
5. Thrilling feeling
Living in the city, we will feel the life of the lack of vulgarity, people's lives if always continue to be so must be very terrible, of course, we can also be from the movies and television and other entertainment activities to feel some of the poor stimulation, but that is by no means the same as the natural world compared to the experience. In nature we can enjoy a variety of thrills and excitement. Cave exploration, hiking canyons, mountain climbing, jungle exploration and river rafting, bungee jumping, diving, rock climbing and other field activities, will experience a variety of thrills.
6. The source of literary and artistic creation
Heirloom literary and artistic works are inevitably from the life, behind closed doors is not a good literary and artistic works. This is true for literary writing and even more so for art and photography. Traveling to rural and ethnic areas, paying attention to and understanding their lives, can accumulate material for writing. Those who study music can collect valuable music materials from the rural areas and ethnic compatriots. For those who love art and photography, there is a lot to be gained. Most of the award-winning art and photography works come from nature and rural areas, which is a reward for the creators who go deeper into their lives.
The fun and meaning of traveling should be much more than that, as long as we bring love, sincerity, curiosity to face all the things we will encounter, you will find a deeper meaning of life and the charm of nature, action! After all, the time to return to nature has come.
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