Ugliness, like raw scenic beauty, needs no interpretation

Evidence

As the interpreter, in or out of the National Park Service, is not needed to define or explain scenic beauty, neither does its opposite require interpretation. When Alice was in Wonderland, the Mock Turtle told her that he went to school with an old turtle who taught Uglification. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 641

Categorization

• CANDY: The Mock Turtle’s school subject of Uglification is a delightfully quotable Carroll reference.
• XREF: connects to: Raw sensory beauty interprets itself and needs no interpretation — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 630; Nature does not produce beauty for humans but simply is beauty itself. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 624; Labeling things beautiful destroys their perceived beauty — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 506 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Nature does not produce beauty for humans but simply is beauty itself. #corroborates (0.80) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 624
• The appearance has its own being and refers to nothing behind it #corroborates (0.78) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 119
• Labeling things beautiful destroys their perceived beauty #qualifies (0.75) — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 506