"Turning a corner, the bus had climbed to the height of the temperate forest. There was no longer the rustling of bamboo leaves; through the windows came the sound of soughing pines, and both sides of the road were dark with Japanese red cedar, Taiwan red pine and Pinus morrisonicola. The tree-tops towered over the road, and serried ranks of trunks rushed by one after another.
「一個轉彎，車已爬高到溫帶林的高度，沒有蕭蕭的竹葉聲了，車窗外傳過來一陣陣松濤，路的兩旁，黑壓壓一片柳杉、二葉松、五葉松，樹梢鋪天壓地罩在公路上…… 整整齊齊的行列，刷刷地一排過去了，刷刷地又是一排… …。」