Understanding gained in place creates a felt sense of personal custody over parks

Evidence

In the very place, surrounded by the very memorials, you enjoy by understanding. From that fuller understanding follows a sense of personal custody. “This is my legacy. I must protect it.” Thus interpretation becomes also an instrument of the safekeeping of our parks. — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 831

Categorization

• DEFINE: This restates the core interpretive causal chain (enjoy by understanding; understanding to custody) in Tilden’s own promotional context, tying interpretation directly to protection.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Relational truths about ecological community outlast isolated natural history facts in memory — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 861; Effective interpretation must engage visitors’ present anxieties, not just park facts — Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage, 58; Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural…, 40 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Embodied memory and felt landmarks constitute a profound knowing of place #corroborates (0.85) — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Gathering Moss, 40
• Residents’ private claiming of public spaces both reinforces and subverts urban spatial order #corroborates (0.82)