The Lorax Quotes

“The old Once-ler still lives here. Ask him. He knows.”

“Then he grunts, ‘I will call you by Whisper-Ma-Phone, for the secrets I tell are for your ears alone.‘”

“Describe him? That’s hard, I don’t know if I can.”

“Get over here fast! Take the road to North Nitch. Turn left at Weehawken. Sharp right at South Stitch.”

“And I first saw the trees! The Truffula trees! The bright-colored tufts of the Truffula trees! Mile after mile in the fresh morning breeze.”

“I meant no harm. I most truly did not. But I had to grow bigger. So bigger I got.”

“He’ll tell you, perhaps . . . if you’re willing to pay.”

“On the end of a rope he lets down a tin pail and you have to toss in fifteen cents and a nail and the shell of a great-great-great- grandfather snail.”

“Sir! You are crazy with greed. There is no one on earth that would buy that fool Thneed!”

“Then he pulls up the pail, makes a most careful count to see if you’ve paid him the proper amount.”

″[B]usiness is business! And business must grow regardless of crummies in tummies, you know.”

“And my poor Bar-ba-loots are all getting the crummies because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.”

“A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need.”

“And on special dank midnights in August, he peeks out of the shutters and sometimes he speaks.”

“It’s a shirt. It’s a sock. It’s a glove. It’s a hat.”

“I called all my brothers and uncles and aunts and I said, ‘Listen here! Here’s a wonderful chance for the whole Once-ler Family to get mighty rich.‘”

“I went right on biggering . . . selling more Thneeds. And I biggered my money, which everyone needs.”

“I felt a great leaping of joy in my heart.”

“And he spoke with a voice that was sharpish and bossy.”

“No one can sing who has smog in his throat.”

“That was long, long ago. But each day since that day I’ve sat here and worried and worried away.”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

“It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.”

“A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.”

“I am the Lorax who speaks for the trees, which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please!”

″ Way back in the days when the grass was still green and the pond was still wet and the clouds were still clean,”

″ I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. ”

″ Then we heard the tree fall, the very last Truffula Tree of them all! ”

″ In no time at all, I had built a small shop. Then I chopped down a Truffula Tree with one chop. ”

“You’re glumping the pond where the Humming-fish hummed! No more can they hum, for their gills are all glummed! ”