![]() ![]() Thinly veiled environmental metaphor aside, The Lorax, which sold more than a million copies and has been adapted into more than a dozen languages, may have drawn a more surprising element from nature, too. It's not."įor a writer who achieved notoriety by skillfully weaving his own whimsical rhymes in imaginary worlds, Seuss rooted the seemingly make-believe Lorax very much in reality. The moral of the cautionary tale, in Seuss’ words: "UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. After the Once-ler - despite the Lorax's incessant pleading - eventually uprooted all of the Truffula trees, thus destroying the entire ecosystem, the “sort of man” Lorax disappeared, leaving behind only the word "UNLESS" in a small pile of rocks. And he spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy." The Lorax was the vocal defender of the Truffula trees that the Once-ler greedily chopped down en masse in order to knit thneeds from their bright-colored tufts. ![]() "He was shortish, and oldish, and brownish and mossy. I don't know if I can," wrote Seuss (aka Theodor Geisel) in his 1971 children’s book. More than a decade after he'd dreamt up iconic characters like a hat-wearing cat and a grumpy Grinch who stole Christmas, Dr. ![]()
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