Today it is seen as backward. You could say this is a product of a capitalist society. But the price will be paid for by future generations who will rely on the earth for survival, "says Chang Kuo-lung. He does not believe that a simple, conservationist lifestyle is necessarily uninteresting or dry; on the contrary it is full of the fun of creativity.
「過去簡樸、惜物被視為美德，今天被看成落伍，可以說是資本主義社會創造出來的，代價就得由後代子子孫孫賴以生存的地球來負擔」，張國龍不認為樸實簡約的生活就是無趣、枯燥，反而是充滿創造性的樂趣。