Finally, I wish to offer my opinion, just as a private visitor, that although the old saying that “he who travels must be prepared to take away only as much as he brings with him” applies to all our great parks, it holds true especially of Big Bend. It is a desert-mountain country whose qualities offer an allurement, a satisfaction of soul, only if the visitor will put himself in the right mood, and will remain long enough to know it with some intimacy. He who drives in and drives out without letting the motor cool, may see, to be sure, some most interesting natural objects, but he will not know, and can never love, Big Bend.
-Freeman Tilden, 1945
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