In her earlier works one could still get a real sense of loss and of being unable to give up Taiwan completely. Though she lived abroad, she could relate her experiences there as she watched birds or came in contact with nature to her thoughts about Taiwan. Naturalist writing thus became for her a form for going home, a way to ameliorate her homesickness.
本來在她較早的作品裡，還看得到一種真情的捨不得，時時把在異鄉看鳥、接近大自然的經驗與對台灣的思念連繫在一起，把「自然寫作」當成是一種返鄉的形式，慕念故土的救贖。