Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/587/en

The sheep's contribution to the ensoulment of the landscape becomes experienceable when the shepherd draws with his flock in autumn across the farm precincts and beyond through the surrounding cultural landscape: the shepherd striding ahead with his staff, the flock pressing close behind him; or he standing in the midst of the field, the sheep ranging around him in search of food. This scene awakens a mood of deep peace that spreads across the landscape — a picture of perfect stillness and movement at one and the same time. A flock of sheep moving thus across the fields, from precinct to precinct, each stirring of whose being gathers itself in the shepherd's consciousness and is guided from thence, forges relationships that bind the individual agricultural organisms into the higher unity of the cultural landscape. The goats, beside the sheep, are less creatures of the herd. They have more "self-will." They are kept in limited numbers for milk and meat production and render, partly as a substitute for cattle, valuable services in the whole canon of domestic animals toward the shaping of the soul-body of the agricultural organism.