To be sure, there is not a single naturalist writer who has not expressed great anguish at the rapid destruction of Taiwan's environment. In fact, the entire field of naturalist literature has carried the responsibility of raising the environmental consciousness of Taiwan's residents, and has therefore never been pure literary description.
沒有一位「自然寫作」者，不曾對台灣生態的迅速破壞表示過痛心疾首，事實上一直到今天，「自然寫作」整個文類都還背負了提昇台灣人保育意識的責任，而不是純粹的大自然寫真描述。