Wanderlust and why do I make?

Im thoroughly enjoying reading Rebecca Solnits Wanderlust:A History Of Walking.
Im finding I can relate and agree with alot of the ideas Solnit describes, even the journeys she describes, of being in the world, and learning and being surprised by it just by simply wandering through it.
I have been thinking a bit recently about why I make. What is it that propells me to make things? I think its almost like me using my hands to 'walk' through the world and the objects around me. I like to find different items, put them together with other items, mix them up, change them around. My room for example, has always had objects and images placed on the walls from as young an age as I was allowed to stick things on them. Looking through childhood photos, and even more recent ones, I always find it interesting to look at the walls in my room, and see how much they change over time. Even within short periods of time the varied and vast assemblages of objects and images are taken off, moved, added, re-arranged, discarded. I also find that with each photograph, I can remember the exact things that are on the walls, and stories and memories that go with each piece. It is a knowledge that can only be gained by having a physical interaction with each piece, me evaluating it, deciding where to put it, or whether to put it up at all, what to put next to it, etc etc.
At the beach I will pick up ephemera from the sand. Ill arrange them in some sort of order, Ill put them on top of things, Ill stack them, Ill bury them. Just constant playing with objects in my environment. Perhaps thats a tendency of an object-orientated mind or person, and not something everybody is interested in doing, but I feel like it is human nature, or perhaps human neccessity to understand and engage with the world through the body. The current technological status of the world takes away the tactility from this experience and only simlates it, so people think or even believe that they know what something does or how it feels or how it works, but in reality, in the real, physical world, they have no idea.

Below are a few resounding quotes from the first two chapters of Wanderlust alone!

"Many people nowadays live in a series of interiors - home, car, gym, office, shops - disconnected from each other" p9

"The multiplication of technologies in the name of efficiency is actually eradicating free time by making it possible to maximise the time and place for production and minimise the unstructured travel time in bewteen. New timesaving technologies make most workers more productive, not more free, in a world that seems to be accelerating around them. Too, the rhetoric of efficiency around these technologies suggests that what cannot be quantified cannot be valued - that the vast array of pleasures that fall into the category of doing nothing in particular, of woolgathering, cloud-gazing, wandering, window shopping, are nothing but voids to be filled by something more definite, more productive or faster paced." p10

"I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three miles an hour. If this is so, then modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness." p10

"Exploring the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains." p13

"Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the body and the body through the world." p29