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John Muir Memorial Marker
John Muir Memorial Park
at Fountain Lake, Wisconsin
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The text on the marker reads:
JOHN MUIR
Foster son of Wisconsin
born in Scotland
April 21, 1838
He came to America as a lad
of eleven, spent his 'teen years
in hard work clearing the farm
across this lake, carving out a
home in the wilderness. In the
"sunny woods, overlooking a
flowery glacial meadow and a
lake rimmed with water lilies,"
he found an environment that
fanned the fire of his zeal and
love for all nature, which, as a
man, drove him to study, afoot,
alone and unafraid, the forests,
mountains and glaciers of the
west to become the most rug-ged,
fervent naturalist America
has produced, and the father
of the national parks of our
country.