Abstract: Confucianism pays attention to the Time and advocates the Mean, and the spiritual core of the Confucian view of nature based on ecological ethics is the Time-Dependent Mean. There are twofold connotations in this view of nature: one upholds the preciousness of human being but sticks to an ecological ethics; the other exploits creatures but also cares about them, which is a value choice of ecological ethics with different orders. In the sense of the ecological civilization and especially the ecological ethics, Confucian view of nature follows the concentric circle as the ecological mode. In a word, Confucian view of nature that is based on the ecological ethics provides very important theoretical resources and inspiration for the construction of ecological civilization.