Dramatized connection beats warnings and statistics for conservation

Evidence

Dramatized? Yes. Overdramatized? No. It was perfect. Not all the warning signs about fires ever put on the roadsides, not all the statistics ever published, not all the logic ever spoken, could have had the effect that this ranger secured upon his group. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 299

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The fingertip-snap destruction of centuries of growth is a conservation-propagation lesson that belongs beside the trees essay’s root-graft and living-bridge stories — the method (emotional enactment over data) is exactly what ‘Grafting & Growth’ argues about why trees move people.
• XREF: connects to: Accurate facts without provocation are ineffectual in interpretation — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 281; Open-space preservation logically expanded conservation’s scope to the whole environment — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 620; Relational truths about ecological community outlast isolated natural history facts in memory — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 861

Broader Connections

• Relational truths about ecological community outlast isolated natural history facts in memory #corroborates (0.80) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 861
• Open-space preservation logically expanded conservation’s scope to the whole environment #expands (0.75) — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside, 620