We do not know how the world is going to change in the future. "We have no way to control a future global nuclear war," says ecologist Chen Ming-yi, who emphasizes that people must use all their efforts to let the old trees live for a few more generations so that our descendants can still see something of the world's original countenance.
未來的世界會變得如何我們不知道，但是，就如生態學者陳明義所說，今人仍需盡力讓這些老樹多活幾代，讓兒孫輩仍能知道大地的部分原貌。