Symbols
The provincial seal shows the Phanom Rung sandstone temple, a Hindu shrine of the Shivaite sect. The temple was in use from the 9th through the 12th century, when the rule of Khmer Empire in the region was overthrown by Thais from Ayutthaya. It is now an historic park.
The provincial flower is the Yellow Cotton Tree (Cochlospermum regium); the provincial tree is the Pink Shower (Cassia grandis).
The province's slogan is The city of sandstone sanctuaries, the land of volcanoes, beautiful silk and rich culture.
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“The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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—Carol Moseley-Braun (b. 1947)
“As usual I finish the day before the sea, sumptuous this evening beneath the moon, which writes Arab symbols with phosphorescent streaks on the slow swells. There is no end to the sky and the waters. How well they accompany sadness!”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)