The Performance of Revering Nature

I thought the 20th stanza of "Hart-Leap Well" was one of the most powerful sections of the poem and it drives home a very strong point about the way humans laud yet mistreat nature. Sir Walter exclaims how he is so impressed by the hart that he will build a monument in his honor. Yet after he makes his speech the poem continues,

Then home he went, and left the Hart, stone-dead,

With breathless nostrils stretched above the spring.
--Soon did the Knight perform what he had said,
And far and wide the fame thereof did ring.

This section helps emphasize the cruel, selfish, and wasteful nature of hunting for sport. The knight expresses his wish to honor the hart yet he just leaves its body "stone dead" in the middle of the dell. The origional purpose of hunting to procure food has been divorced from the practice as Sir Walter has put his "spoil" through the intense pain of a drawn-out chase and doesn't even use its body for meat. His attempts to laud the hart seem completely pointless as a deceased deer can't appreciate the human concept of fame. Even the way he attempts to memorialize the event leads to the selfish alteration of nature as he creates a pleasure house for dancing and wooing his paramour. Wordsworth seems to suggest that any awe and reverence towards nature nature is a meaningless "performance" when we continue to waste what we treat as an endless resource.