Abstract: Material and spiritual demands of human being are initial driving powers for the development of forest culture, the relationship between mankind and nature is the secondary driving power, and technology and education play the role of catalyst. Under the incorporated influence of multiple variables, forest culture has experienced three evolution stages of primitive culture period, agricultural cultivation period and industrial exploitation period. With the development of urbanization and strategy shift of forestry construction, the subject components and demands on object of forest culture have dramatically changed, which drives forest culture to evolve. Urban forest culture, which is combined with ecological culture and urban culture, will become dominant development direction of forest culture. Forest religious culture will co-exist with the mainstream of forest culture for a long time, while indigenous folk forest culture will die out.