The interpreter’s work begins with nature’s concealed functional order

Evidence

The beauty of the adventure of the mind: the revelation of the order of nature. Exactly at this point is where the office of the interpreter begins. There is a concealed beauty that does not appear to the senses. Indeed, this aspect takes two forms. It involves a revelation of the natural beauty we think of as order—nature at work—and the beauty of that development of the human mind that makes it possible for man partly to understand it. What are the forces that created what one sees, and feels, as beautiful? — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 631

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Interpreters must reveal beauty as balanced order, not just visual form — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 518; Order emerges from relations between things, not from an external observer’s frame — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 538

Broader Connections

• Order emerges from relations between things, not from an external observer’s frame #expands (0.75) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 538