Deserting after his first moment in battle,Henry continues to read Nature as sympathetic to his plight.when he throws a pine cone at a squirrel,the squirrel scampera away,and Henry interprets the squirrel’s escape as a sign that Nature approves of his own desertion “she[nature]re-enforced his argument with proofs that lived where the sun shone”.Only when he is wounded by a retreating soldier and returns with new determination to his duty does Henry realize that Nature’s beauty stands separate from the black chaos and confusion of battle.After he participates in another fierce battle and withnesses its atrocity,he observes that the blue sky and the bright sun remain unaffected by the dark smoke and smoldering ruin below.