Perhaps it is because he has heard too many stories of human nature changing in the struggle for survival-stories of man's pillaging and avarice leading to the destruction of the environment and the vanishing of the rainforests, and stories of Aboriginal territories being encroached upon by stronger peoples-that while Hsu encourages young people to go exploring, he emphasizes that exploration is intended purely to round out their experience.
在生存壓力下，這也是不得不然。」或許是見聞了太多生存壓力對於人性的扭曲，人類掠奪和貪婪導致環境的破壞、雨林的消逝，原住民族遭遇外來優勢民族的侵入，徐仁修在鼓勵年輕人外出探險之餘，也強調，探險純粹是豐富人生閱歷。