The Park Service was born with interpretation as its core ideal

Evidence

In a book upon the principles of interpretation it would be not only ungenerous, but actually a deficiency, to fail to consider the brilliant and unselfish efforts of the group of men that launched the educational program that, to a considerable degree, still remains the essence of National Park Service interpretation. Far from being an afterthought, the National Park Service was born with this ideal of employing the beauty and wonder of the parks, and the leisure that permitted visitation, as a sylvan path toward reverence and understanding. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 271

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Parks’ finest purpose is spiritual uplift via beauty — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 526

Broader Connections

• Parks’ finest purpose is spiritual uplift via beauty #corroborates (0.85) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 526