"The natural environment is a resource that belongs to everyone, and the people have the right to understand the environment around them," is how Lin thinks about his promotion of the study of nature. But in order to insure that these resources are not overexploited, polluted, or destroyed by being made public, Lin's bottom line in his Encyclopedic Survey is "absolutely never reveal the specific location."
「大自然是全體民眾的資源，民眾有權認識周遭的環境」，這是林宗聖推展博物學的想法，但為了避免自然資源公開後被濫用、汙染、破壞，目前他撰寫博物誌的底限卻是「絕不公開地點」。