John Muir
The naturalist John Muir visited Cedar Key in 1867 on his historic walk from Kentucky to Florida. He wrote:
For nineteen years my vision was bounded by forests, but today, emerging from a multitude of tropical plants, I beheld the Gulf of Mexico stretching away unbounded, except by the sky. What dreams and speculative matter for thought arose as I stood on the strand, gazing out on the burnished, treeless plain!
The John Muir historic marker was placed on the museum grounds in 1983, commemorating his visit.
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“But famished field and blackened tree
Bear flowers in Eden never known.
Blossoms of grief and charity
Bloom in these darkened fields alone.”
—Edwin Muir (1887–1959)