Vermont is a green mountain state in the USA, often referred to as a jewel state with an invigorating climate.
People crave Vermont nights instead of the city lights. Let us read some Vermont quotes to understand its beauty.
Famous Vermont Quotes
"Vermont my home is a celebration of the green mountain state." - T. Namaya
"The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards." – Jack Keely
"What seems real one moment is fiction the next
and gone out of existence the moment after that.
Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,
and change our only constancy." – David Budbill
"All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious." – Pearl S. Buck
"I am often reminded that the wellspring of Vermont liberty flows from Main Street, not State Street." – James H. Douglas
"New England has a strong tradition of localism. What is ordinarily called election day in most of the United States is called town meeting day in Vermont." – Murray Bookchin
"Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect." – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team." – Hannah Teter
"Vermont is the most hygge state in America." – Unknown*
"For much of America, the all-American values depicted in Norman Rockwell's classic illustrations are idealistic. For those of us from Vermont, they're realistic. That's what we do." – Unknown*
"Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont." – Clarence Darrow
"When I was in high school, I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!" – Daphne Zuniga
"I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores, and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business, and check in on one another." – Peter Welch
"Living in an autumn wonderland." – Unknown*
“Someone told me that when they go to Vermont, they feel like they're home. I'm that way at Saks.” - Caroline Rhea
"Traded the city lights for Vermont nights." – Unknown*
"Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value." – Unknown*
"What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont." – Abraham Maslow
"Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister – who is a children's writer married to a poet." – Anne Stevenson
"Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom, human life is not worth living." – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Vermont Quotes For Travelers
"But first, let's go to Vermont." – Unknown*
"Vermont is a country unto itself." – Pearl S. Buck
"Vermonters, it seems to me, are like ethnics in their own land. They are exceedingly conscious of their difference from other Americans, and they talk a great deal about outsiders, newcomers, and people from the south." – Jan Morris
"Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference." – Fred Rogers
"You've got to remember, Vermont is a lot of beautiful mountains with valleys and small brooks that run into bigger rivers." – Peter Shumlin
"The Vermont mountains stretch extended straight; New Hampshire mountains curl up in a coil." – Robert Frost
The only thing better than a beautiful view is more beautiful views." – Unknown*
"Someone told me to 'take a hike', so I did." – Unknown*
"It is always worth taking the scenic route." – Unknown*
"Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life." – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"Once upon a time in Vermont." – Unknown*
"A year in Vermont, according to an old saw, is nine months of winter followed by three months of very poor sledding." – Bill Bryson
"It is true, we do lack a good hip-hop channel, and our corn mazes are quite popular." – Michael Schirling
"Canada? Please. That's like they took Vermont and made a whole country out of it, only more boring and without the good maple syrup." – Larry Correia
"The Christmas trees are brought from Vermont by monosyllabic men in warm clothes; they seem alien, closer to the earth, silently contemptuous, like gypsies. They bring in their trees and stand them up on the pavements so that swaths of Broadway are suddenly transformed into dark, pine-scented avenues." – Deborah Meyler
"In the mood for a road trip? Head to Vermont!" – Unknown*
"Take advantage of this gorgeous weather by heading outdoors and exploring the great outdoors in Vermont!" – Unknown*
"I am just a mountain girl at heart." – Unknown*
"Off to Vermont, I go, to lose my mind and find my soul." – Unknown*
"Vermont, you leaf me breathless." – Unknown*
"Vermont has everything you need for a perfect day: mountains, lakes, rivers, forests, and more!" – Unknown*
Interesting Vermont Quotes
"I'm going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season." – Tracy Kidder
"I'm from Vermont, where to be stylish and cool is to have a dirty pair of hiking boots and know how to change a tire, hang drywall, and bale hay." – Grace Potter
"Visiting Ireland reminded me of when I first arrived in Vermont. I thought, 'This is home.'" – Jane O'Meara Sanders
"One out of every 100 families in Vermont was a part owner of Ben and Jerry's." – Jerry Greenfield
"In high school, I went to a place called the Mountain School. It's on a farm in Vermont, and I read Emerson and Thoreau and ran around the woods." – Nick Kroll
"Only she who attempts the absurd can ever achieve the impossible." – Nancy Means Wright
"Time to syrup some fun!" – Unknown*
"Come with, dance with blazing sun of Vermont." – Unknown*
"I am the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress. People of Vermont sent me to Washington as an independent. That is true." – Unknown*
"As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years." – Christopher Bond
“A lot of people in my state of Vermont are gun owners.” - Patrick Leahy
"No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve." – Dorothy Canfield Fisher
"I think I might have a crush on Vermont." – Unknown*
"Orange, you glad you get to see all the fall things I'm doing in Vermont?" – Unknown*
"Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing." – Barry Finlay
"The view is tree-mendous!" – Unknown*
"Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague." – Colin Trevorrow
"What separates a good hockey team from a great hockey team? The New Hampshire-Vermont border." – Unknown*
"It won't be warm till the snow gets off the mountain, and the snow won't get off the mountain till it gets warm." – Unknown*
"And to a Vermonter who eats apple pie for breakfast." – Unknown*
"The world is your cow. But you have to do the milking." – Unknown*
Vermont Quotes About Nature
"I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others.
If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont." – Calvin Coolidge.
"You either love Vermont in the fall, or you're wrong." – Unknown*
"Sugaring season is the season when you tap the trees for sugar that turns into maple syrup. I've married someone from Vermont, so it's an expression I kept hearing, and I'm like, 'What is that? That's just so beautiful.' I like the idea it's the very, very first murmurings of spring." – Beth Orton
"The town of North Falls consisted of twenty-eight square miles positioned on a high plateau in the southern region of the Green Mountain range. It had the highest altitude of any village in the state, which meant the snow came early, and it came often.
It also meant that the first thing anybody noticed about the town was the church steeple. The rotting whitewashed wood and the slatted oval window, and the copper spire all connected to the simple wood framing.
It was the highest point in the state, and people liked to say that it was closer to God than anywhere else in Vermont.
Not that it did the town much good." – Ian Pisarcik, 'Before Familiar Woods'
"Sometimes in winter, there comes a spell of snowstorms and sunshine and terrific contentment. On snowy afternoons there is a special blessedness in saying, oh, it is too snowy to chop wood this afternoon.
And the gray snow sifts down, and one takes off one's boots and sits by the fire and is glad of the way wool socks smell, and a pie is baking in the oven, and the gray snow is sifting down." – Elliott Merrick, 'Green Mountain Farm'
"The north wind roaring down in October is cruel and cold and reminds you again — as the sea has a way of doing — that nature does not care for man.
And somehow that makes the red and yellow leaves and the blue, deceptive noons all the sweeter and more precious because living is so dangerous and so short and can be so bitter."
– Elliott Merrick, 'Green Mountain Farm'
"Black bears, though, are not fearsome. I encountered one on the road to my house in Vermont, alone at night. I picked up two stones just in case, but I wasn't afraid of him. I felt a hunter's exhilaration and a brotherly feeling." – Edward Hoagland
"Vermont is small, but its sky is wide." – Unknown*
"In Vermont, the four seasons are: "almost winter," "winter," "still winter," and "road construction." – Unknown*
"The leaves are changing, and so is Vermont." – Michael Schirling
"Happy fall-days from Vermont." – Unknown*
"I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees." – Henry David Thoreau
"I found far more answers in the woods than I ever did in the city." – Mary Davis
"Trails before ales, pines before wines." – Unknown*
"Land of nature, Land of tourists." – Unknown*
"Deep in the forest, I stroll to hear the wisdom of my soul." – Angie Weiland-Crosby
"Vermont is my home, and I love it so much." – Unknown*
"You have summer and winter together in Vermont before you really know each other." – Unknown*
"Vermont: Where "through the covered bridge" is always part of giving directions." – Unknown*
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