State Symbols
Main article: List of Pennsylvania state symbols- Motto: "Virtue, liberty, and independence"
- Tree: Eastern Hemlock
- Game bird: Ruffed Grouse
- Flower: Mountain Laurel
- Insect: Pennsylvania Firefly
- Animal: White-tailed deer
- Dog: Great Dane
- Fish: Brook Trout
- Fossil: Phacops rana
- Beverage: Milk
- Song: "Pennsylvania"
- Ship: US Brig Niagara
- Electric locomotive: GG1 4859
- Steam locomotive: K4s 1361 and K4s 3750
- Beautification plant: Penngift Crownvetch
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Famous quotes containing the words state and/or symbols:
“In time the scouring of wind and rain will wear down the ranges and plane off the region until it has the drab monotony of the older deserts. In the meantime—a two-million-year meantime—travelers may enjoy the cruel beauties of a desert in its youth,....”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)