When logging was at its height in Taiwan, the Taiwan yew was not val ued; when logging was banned, it became many people's favorite; now that the price of its timber has declined again, it has come to be seen as one of the plants which may make the greatest contribution to human medicine in the next century.
台灣紅豆杉，當台灣伐木最盛時期，它不受青睞；當禁伐聲浪高漲，它成為許多人的最愛；當它的木材價格再度衰落，它又被視為下個世紀可能對人類醫療貢獻最大的植物。