The dunes are a place of silence, to which even the sound of the sea comes as a distant whisper, a place (w-----), if you listen closely, you can hear the hissing of the ever moving stand grains or the dry rustle of the beach grass. ..... Everything in that scene caused me to feel apart, realizing that the relation of birds to the sea is rooted in millions of years, that man came but yesterday.
――早稲田大学(第一文学部)――2003年