"In a society changed by modern technology, choosing something as unpopular as woodcarving as your life's work is part fate and partly because you're suited to it. It's also a decision you arrive at after a great deal of thought." Huang Kuosu knows that it was not only the attraction of his old home but also a greater understanding of his own nature that brought him back.
面對塵封斑鏽的工具，雖睽違數年卻恍如昨日，依然熟悉，「在科技化社會中選擇冷門的木雕作為終身職業，是因緣也是適性，更是深思熟慮後所作的抉擇，」黃國書知道，這不僅是故鄉的召喚，更是瞭解自性後的回歸。