Horses need approximately up to 2 acres of open, intensely managed land per horse.
If dogs are pair- or group-housed, the minimum space provided should be 1.4 m2 per dog.
And at least 200 square feet of space is needed per cat. But how much space does a human being need? Can we really measure it? Can we truly be constrained like an animal in the zoo or a prisoner at a jail? Freedom is our water. We need it like air.
What would happen to an eagle that’s been captured? White sharks will die if they are kept in a tank, no matter how big. And yet we create these convictions that horses, cats or dogs need an X amount of space. No being should be constrained. Traveling is what made Charles Darwin get an idea in his mind which later became the Theory of Evolution. It is when he travelled to Galapagos that he saw the same type of bird with different beaks. It is thanks to traveling that Cristopher Columbus discovered America.
Imagine if all the great explorers simply decided not to travel? Traveling is what created our society and the civilisation we know today. It is what shaped humanity. And it is precisely what shaped each and every individual who decided to travel around the world.
But why is this? Why do we have to go somewhere else to get to ourselves?
To truly find ourselves, we need to get lost; we need to wander. We need to climb the highest mountain, swim in the deepest ocean, talk to idiots and fall in love with the wind in order to find what we once lost. It is the need for an adventure that makes us human; that makes us want to truly live and not only exist.
So how far do we have to go to reach ourselves?
Some will find themselves on The Avenue des Champs-Élysées, others listening to the Big Ben striking midnight or seeing themselves in the eyes of a passer-by asking for a cigarette on the streets of San Francisco. And isn’t it strange how confusing the streets of Tokyo may seem to someone, while another person knows every corner of it? Every unknown destination for one is a home to another. Which brings only one conclusion : it is through exploring and traveling to as many corners of the world as we can, that we are broadening our home. And what could be the greatest treasure than calling the world your home?