Interpreting Our Heritage Quotes

“Compared with the usual fate of humans, we who are engaged in preservation work, daily in contact with what we most like and admire, are fortunate indeed. As I write this, I have just returned from a gathering of men and women in the museum and historic-house field. What cheerful, rapt faces! What intensity of interest! What freedom of discussion, where difference of opinion about procedure was taken for granted and met with a smile. Do you really think this is common experience in the workaday world? Are you unaware of the fact that most people often feel that they are traveling the wrong road, and bitterly conclude that it is too late to return to a distant fork?”
― Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage

“Let those who are wearied with the clash of warring nations ... turn their attention to the silent life of vegetation ... and remember that the earth continues to teem with new life.”
― Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage

“La investigación es una necesidad continua y la savia de la buena conservación.”
― Freeman Tilden, Interpreting Our Heritage