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)
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Famous quotes containing the words state and/or symbols:
“Every country has its own constitution; ours is absolutism moderated by assassination.”
—Anonymous Russian. Quoted in Count Münster, Political Sketches of the State of Europe 1814-1867 (1868)
“And into the gulf between cantankerous reality and the male ideal of shaping your world, sail the innocent children. They are right there in front of us—wild, irresponsible symbols of everything else we can’t control.”
—Hugh O’Neill (20th century)