Michael Frome

There are too many people coming to parks doing the wrong things. They treat the parks like popcorn playgrounds. They don't understand what the national parks mean.

One of the most unusual shuttles operates at the Lyndon B. Johnson National Historic Site in Texas, carrying visitors on a one and one-half hour trip past Johnson's birthplace, the family cemetery and ranch house, and through the ranch.

A boundary is really something artificial we made up. The ecosystem and landscape continue.

It's better to go to one place and stay put and see it than run around a lot of territory and see nothing.

You don't have to tip anybody, anywhere, anything. You do so only because you want to, in appreciation for service well-rendered.

When people performing on the public's behalf feel intimidated, it's a sorry affair.

I want the Forest Service to look at a vista with scenery, not only at lumber with a price tag.

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

Women are especially sensible in matters relating to tipping: fair but not foolish.

The largest single reason for disappointing travel experiences is the failure to plan properly.

However one reaches the parks, the main thing is to slow down and absorb the natural wonders at leisure.

Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.