Environment plays an important role on human being & apos; s present and future life. A clean and healthy environment can contribute to all societies and help people reach prosperity and success. Environmental ethics is the investigation of ethical relationships between human beings and the natural environment, which includes the nonhuman creatures. In environmental ethics, we normally look for the proper way to understand the relationship between humans and the natural environment, detect the values emerging from the relationship, the principles and rules of action and characteristics do those goods and values justify. In this study, we investigate the effects of different variables including responsibility, social ethics, education and traditional and religious values on environment and environmental behavior. The study is executed in two regions of city of Zanjan, Iran based on a questionnaire consists of 400 people. A Pearson correlation test is performed among different components and the results indicated that all mentioned variables influence environmental ethics, significantly. However, normalization variable does not have any impact on environment. The preliminary results indicate culture plays an important role on people & apos; s behavior in society.