Quotes from work
The Lorax
The Lorax is a stage adaptation of the children's novel of the same name by Dr. Seuss, adapted by David Greig featuring songs by Charlie Fink.
“UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.”
Source: The Lorax (1972)
“It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.”
Variant: It doesn't matter what it is. What matters is what it will become.
Source: The Lorax
“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.”
Variant: I speak for the trees!
Source: The Lorax
“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”
Source: The Lorax (1971)
Context: I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees,
Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!
But I'm also in charge of the brown Bar-ba-loots,
Who played in the shade in their Bar-ba-loot suits,
And happily lived, eating Truffula fruits.
Now, thanks to your hacking my trees to the ground,
There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round!
And my poor Bar-ba-loots are all getting the crummies
Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies!
The Lorax (1971)
Whatever that meant . . . well, I just couldn't guess.
The Lorax (1971)
calls the Once-ler.
He lets something fall.
"It's a Truffula Seed.
It's the last one of all!
You're in charge of the last of the Truffula Seeds.
And Truffula Trees are what everyone needs.
Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care.
Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air.
Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack.
Then the Lorax
and all of his friends
may come back."
The Lorax (1971)
