The global ecological degradation has caused stakeholders from all fields, including literature, to project their views and/or propose solutions regarding the issue. This work set out to examine the significance of proverbs and myths in the representation of the relationship between man and nature in Tim Winton‘s Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath; and Chinua Achebe‘s Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God. The question that guides this paper is: what role do proverbs and myths play in bringing out ecological perspectives in Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath by Tim Winton; and Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease and Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe? It is hypothesisized that proverbs and myths project the contextualized aesthetic dimension of the writers‘ environmental visions thereby making it very specific to their settings. Ecopoetics according to Sarah Nolan constitutes the theoretical framework employed to investigate the manner in which Winton and Achebe use proverbs and myths to bring out their ecological perceptions in their respective sets of texts. The paper concludes that Tim Winton and Chinua Achebe have environmental protection discourses in their texts with proverbs and myths providing contextualized stylistic elements that corroborate their backgrounds. By incorporating traditional narratives into their ecological narratives, Winton and Achebe project the role of indigeneous knowledge systems in preserving nature; and present unique visions on the bearing of literature in ecological discourse.