The study examines how language is suggested to influence the perception and treatment of the land in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon. By applying a postcolonial ecocritical perspective to the narrative, the study shows how language influences varying and conflicting perceptions and treatments of the land. The study demonstrates that the colonizers exploit the land as it is perceived as unnamed, unknown and set apart from humans and demonstrates that the colonized experience oneness with the land and view it as sacred through Dreaming Stories about The Dreaming. However, the novel does propose that a deeper understanding of the land is attainable to all characters no matter which language they speak. The study aims to reveal the novel’s ecological message, that language influences but does not definitively determine the perception and treatment of the land. By applying a postcolonial ecocritical perspective in combination with a transcultural ecocritical perspective, the study will also aim to question whether the perspective of the colonized is righteously depicted in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon.