台湾杰出的自然作家和学者吴明益,于其台湾自然文学写作丛书的第三册《自然之心——从自然书写到生态批评》一章节中谈道:海洋写作或海洋文学一直以来被视为台湾文学研究的主题之一,因为目前很少有这一方面的研究,而台湾因为四面临海,许多学者视海洋文学为台湾文学里重要的一环。吴明益认为,台湾虽有丰富的山河,却很少有人严谨地投入“山岳文学”或“河流文学” Wu Mingyi, an outstanding Taiwanese naturalist and scholar, said in his chapter “Nature’s Heart - From Nature to Ecocriticha”, Book Three in Taiwan’s Natural Literature Writing Series: Marine writing or marine literature has long been regarded as As one of the themes of Taiwanese literature, there are few researches in this area at present, and because Taiwan faces the sea, many scholars regard marine literature as an important part of Taiwanese literature. Wu Ming-yi believes that although there are abundant rivers and mountains in Taiwan, few have rigorously devoted themselves to “literature of the mountains” or “river literature”