For me the biggest attraction, value is to be able to be just on this quiet water in these very big, wild canyons, and to realize how small you are, and to realize people's proper place in nature that they are small and part of nature. Nature is not there for us to conquer. Even just looking at rocks along the side of the river, and to see just the formation of the rocks, for the rocks to look this way, for the water to have craved them out, to have this beautiful and fluting pattern, may have taken just as long as human beings have been alive on this planet. So just sort of to realize that they are greater, bigger forces at work than the things we see in our day-to-day life, and get away from technology to see a place where people live a much simpler life.

What kind of future do we want. Do we want a future where we don't have the chance to see our Mother Earth and all of her beauty to float along the river and know where our water comes from? Is that the future that we are willing to accept and if it is not the future we are willing to accept, I think there is a balance to be had. We have enough resources at our hands where energy can be met through other ways, we don't need to dam every river that we have and it indeed may not be a good idea. So I hope everyone can think about this, and can at least know that for the time being there are still free-flowing rivers in Western China. And if people act, perhaps there will be for our children.

文大川这个名字真的好有意思。

这个话题每年都有人从不同的角度去宣传，收效甚微。
我们既然享受着压榨自然而来的快速经济发展带来的生活物质的丰裕，再去提为什么不放慢一点发展的速度，没什么说服力，别人还会说你是吃饱了撑的。

小到一个人的人生，大到一个国家的国民经济，都有自成体系的标准——越快越好。一个人什么时候入学，什么时候毕业，什么时候工作，都有一个确定的年龄，晚于别人就抬不起头。各个国家之间的争斗在国防的庇护下去拼经济，统计学发达了，数字成了现代社会的河流。

我离开老家之后，好像就离开了自然。
老家屋前的那片湖我离开之前垃圾已经飘在了上面，几年之后回去再看，不像是在看一片湖，像是在看一潭死水。青石板下看不到死在我鱼缸里几百条的小鱼亲戚。

我已经认识到童年其实是无知的残忍，自然与我之间没有亲近，是我一直以来把自然当作附庸品的报复。