For over thirty years now, the camphor trees along Chungshan North Road have been unable to grow any larger, stunted by the pollution of countless cars, which blocks their pores, obstructs their breathing, interferes with the photosynthesis, and disrupts their organic balance--right in line with the diagnoses of Liao Jih-ching and V.T.
君不見，卅多年來，中山北路上的樟樹就是長不大。這是因為市區萬車齊發，空氣污染，路樹的氣孔、葉面被汙穢物塞住，呼吸不順暢，光合作用不足，導致身心失調﹘﹘廖日京與柳榗的診斷結果一致。