An avid nature photographer from his youth, Lin soon found his whole life revolving around wetland flora. As Lin Chun-chi drives me out to his home in the rural township of Chuangwei, not far from Ilan City, we wend our way through an endless procession of rice fields. Gazing out the car window, I now and then spot a moorhen or white-breasted water hen scurrying about between the paddies.
車子開往鄰近宜蘭市的壯圍鄉，連綿的稻田一望無際，田埂間不時竄出紅冠水雞、白腹秧雞，就在一畦畦的稻田之間，一塊被籬笆圍起的水田裡，漫生著林春吉親手栽植的三百多種水生植物。