Abstract: Topic about “humanity” is always an important theme for literary criticism and aesthetics, but in the discussions in the past, humanistic “life-orientation” is relatively neglected. In the literary criticism, misunderstanding exists in the topic about “humanity and animalism” Humanity is multi-layered, and animalism is the same. From sight of ecology, “Life-orientation” is the essential connotation of humanity. It is our duty to love our lives, to love animal lives and to love all kinds of lives, especially to pay attention to humanistic beautifulness and ugliness in the ecological environmental change.

Key words: ecology, humanity, animalism, life-orientation, to love life