The main purpose of this article is to analyze the relationship between Yaşar Kemal and traditional ecological knowledge, culture and life. In the introduction of this article, the creative interaction approach, nature and human interaction and traditional ecological knowledge are explained. One of the basic assumptions of this research is that traditional ecological knowledge is kept alive not only in the context of traditional culture, but also in the written and printed works of Yaşar Kemal and in later electronic cultural contexts. Yaşar Kemal's relationship with traditional ecological knowledge is analyzed in detail with examples selected from different fields of expression such as folk literature, folk botany, traditional hunting, agriculture and animal husbandry, folk medicine, folk meteorology. As a result, this study reveals that Yaşar Kemal's originality and permanence stem from the fact that he produced works within the range of traditional culture and print culture, based on love for nature and humanity, and especially by making use of traditional ecological knowledge.