Luminaries such as National Taiwan University geography professor Wang Shin, former Taiwan Forestry Research Institute director King Hen-biau, and Society of Wilderness founder Hsu Jen-hsiu praised her book as Taiwan's Walden and said it perfectly captured the spirit of the idealist. Out of the mountains
包括台大地理系教授王鑫、前林業試驗所所長金恆鑣、荒野保護協會創辦人徐仁修，讀畢《女農討山誌》都不禁譽之為台灣版的《湖濱散記》，不僅是因為阿寶跟這位 18 世紀的美國哲人梭羅一樣善畫與造屋，更由於她真實實踐了「有心」地過生活，是理想主義者的精神典範。