Abstract: Environment is the integrative and generative nature.When “environment” concept is used to express the integrative nature,it is endowed with certain characteristics of stillness,isolation,and lifelessness,forming such social ideas and way of behavior as “environmental protection” and “environmental governance”.To change this human-centered view of environment,it is necessary to find environmental ability,e.g.the self-produced ability of natural environment as an integrity,and the ability of it to produce other powers.The former is the natural habitat ability,and the latter is the environmental productivity.On the one hand,environment,as an integrative productivity,releases its productive function to the life world,forming biological diversity;on the other hand,it releases its productive function to human society,promoting the development of ethnic group as well as culture,politics,and economy.The environmental ability to breed the earth is direct,while its ability to mold human society is indirect and soft.In this sense,environmental ability is environmental soft power.

Key words: environmental ability, environmental productivity, environmental soft power