The overseas Chinese environmentalist Hsieh Hsiao-tung says that Westerners regard the Chinese people's "Chuang-tze Butterfly Dream" parable with admiration. But the world of harmony envisioned by the philosophers and poets only exists in the thought of a few.
美國籍的生態保育專家謝孝同說過，西方人常仰慕中華民族有「莊周夢蝶」的境界；但哲學和藝術中所表現出來的天人和諧、物我合一，只是存在少數人的想法。