Interpreters must reveal beauty as balanced order, not just visual form

Evidence

Craters of the Moon pictures nature in agony. The magma could no longer be enchained; it boiled up from the depths and flowed out, and hurled itself upon the earth, cooling in astonishing forms. Since most people think of beauty as somethingperceivable through the eye alone, here is a challenge for the interpreter. He must take the visitor into that larger sphere of the same quality, which we may call order, or perfect compensation. His task, then, is to make a living and thrilling story of that marvelous balance maintained by nature, whereby a loss of weight in earth structure at any given spot is restored at some other, maintaining the axis we currently enjoy. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 518

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Interpreters must feel the beauty they interpret or they fail — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 523; The interpreter’s work begins with nature’s concealed functional order — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 631

Broader Connections

• Interpreters must feel the beauty they interpret or they fail #expands (0.85) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 523
• The interpreter’s work begins with nature’s concealed functional order #expands (0.78) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 631