State Symbols
Main article: State symbols of VermontState symbols include:
- State song – These Green Mountains,
- Unofficial popular state song – Moonlight in Vermont
- State Beverage – milk
- State Pie – apple pie
- State Fruit – apple
- State Flower – red clover
- State Mammal – Morgan horse
- State rock – granite, marble, and slate
- State Tree – sugar maple
- State butterfly – Monarch Butterfly
- State fish cold water – Brook Trout
- State fish warm water – Walleye Pike
- State Fossil – White Whale (Beluga Whale)
Read more about this topic: Geography Of Vermont
Famous quotes containing the words state and/or symbols:
“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“If the Americans, in addition to the eagle and the Stars and Stripes and the more unofficial symbols of bison, moose and Indian, should ever need another emblem, one which is friendly and pleasant, then I think they should choose the grapefruit. Or rather the half grapefruit, for this fruit only comes in halves, I believe. Practically speaking, it is always yellow, always just as fresh and well served. And it always comes at the same, still hopeful hour of the morning.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)