In 2004's A Female Farmer's Notes on Life in the Mountains, Lee Pao-lien, a headstrong woman who yearned to get back to the land, speaks of the powerful, abiding love that led her to farm on Mt.
如女媧手裡迸出的寶石般桀驁不馴、嚮往回歸土地的李寶蓮，在她 2004 年出版、膾炙人口的《女農討山誌》一書中，鋪述她上梨山作農的「遠因」──源於一場轟轟烈烈、至今不渝的戀愛，「我愛上了山川自然。