As his devotion for beauty grew so did his desire to help it flourish, and eventually he did just that. By the end of the book it becomes obvious that he would devote his life to what he had experienced. He becomes protective of the natural beauty that surrounds him and finds it puzzling and frustrating that something so beautiful would be destroyed and replaced with cement. Developing deeper connections and stronger bonds. He grows more and more connected to his surroundings as the book progresses. This specific description serves to bring to mind a well known disliked organism and therefore successfully personifying the sheep as a vessel for his hatred for the destruction of nature. He refers to the sheep he heads as “hoofed locusts”, relating them to pests due to the damages they cause to the ecosystem with their feet. Instead he writes pages distributing what are thought to be inerrantly human adjectives to flowers, plants, and small critters. Upon his arrival he was taken aback by the insincerity of the people he comes across, it is clear that he much prefers the company of plants and wildlife to that of humans so much so that he spends little time mentioning the people he encounters on his journey.
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