Abstract: The traditional Chinese Taoist ecological wisdom has established the highest and the best standard of man-land relationship from the philosophical level and is of great value to guide the ecological planning and design from the root. In the context of Western scientific rationality and technical rationality, John Lyle proposed the idea that “the Taoist approach is the right way of human ecosystems design” and that Ian McHarg’s Woodlands Community in Texas is the epitome of Taoist wisdom and way which westerners can fully learn from and absorb. Probing into the similarities between modern ecological suitability analysis technology of the Woodlands community and Taoist ecological ideas from the aspects of land use and spatial distribution, natural drainage system, regulation-storage mechanism and post-management, and explore the integration characteristics and laws of Taoism and modern ecological planning and design, to provide a new idea with creative and practical significance for ecological planning and design.