The Golden Age Of Exploration

The earth’s continents, mountains, valleys, and islands have been mapped out in great detail for years. The golden age of global exploration is over and has been for quite some time. In some people’s eyes this may equate to exploration being over, a dead art form so to speak. While the entirety of earth’s surface has been explored, to the extent of our current abilities at least, there are still vast areas that we know little about. Exploration of outer space has been a much more recent development than exploration on earth. It’s really only been in the last century when we’ve started learning more about the billion and billion of light-years that stretch out all around us. The frontier of space is so incomprehensibly vast that it is truly impossible to ever explore its entirety. In addition to space, we know little about the ocean. While over 70% of the …show more content…
Discovering things for yourself can often be just as exciting as a breaking scientific expedition. Going hiking or exploring the wilderness on your own in a place you’ve never been before is as much of an expedition as a planned scientific mission. While you may not be discovering things that are new to humankind, you’ll be discovering things for yourself and have experiences that are unique to you. For seven summers I attended a Quaker summer camp in South China, ME. Quakers believe that everyone has an inner light within them and they worship by spending a period of time in silent reflection. Every night the camp would go down to a large field overlooking the lake and watch the sun set in silence. This period of time, called vespers, is a chance to explore. While younger campers may be more intent on exploring the grass, the ants, and the physical world around them, older campers see it as more of a time to reflect inwards and explore their own