"As far as I was concerned, my idea in buying more photographic equipment and improving my technique was simply to use the camera lens to reveal the beauty of Taiwan's mountains and the deep emotions that they evoked in me," says Liu. But when Tunghai began cutting the acacia forest, a subtle change came over his feelings about mountains.
「對我而言，攝影器材的添購、技術的學習，只是單純的想藉由鏡頭呈現台灣山岳的美，和山林帶給我的豐厚感受，」劉思沂說直到「東海砍相思林」事件，他對山的情感才有了微妙的改變。