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This paper attempts to prove the possibility that Lady Chatterley's Lover can be approached by ecological thought. In Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence rejects the binomial contrast which becomes the tradition of western thought by his dualism. After Descartes, the Western men degrade their body and enhance the spirit and the intelligence. This inner split of human being is different from Lawrence's dualism and the oriental thought in which the spirit and the body, the human being and the nature is thought as organic and wholesome. The binomial contrast between spirit and body is deeply related with that of human being and nature. The degradation of human being's body in the Western Europe is led to the degradation of nature. Lawrence asserts that the revival of life-force of human being is the solution to relieve the human being in the modern world. As a result, we can say that Lady Chatterley's Lover is the work that belongs to the category of literary ecology. And we can regard that Lawrence presented the paradigm previously that ecologist advocates.