Abstract: In Far from the Madding Crowd, Hardy's ecological philosophy can be analyzed from his vivid description of the nature. His thoughts are similar to the ecological philosophies advocated in Tao Te Ching. Although their thoughts about the origin of the universe are slightly different, they agree unanimously that Nature is controlled by the natural law, and that the Heaven, the Earth and human beings constitute the universe, and the two philosophies both have the highest ecological ideal of “integration of Nature and human”. In the paper, a cross-cultural comparative study on ecological philosophies is conducted by comparing the similarities and differences of these two philosophies so as to explore the consensus between Chinese and western ecological philosophy.

Key words: Science and Technology, Kunming Yunnan, 650106, China)