The Lorax

the now remorseful once ler our faceless bodiless narrator tells the story himself long ago this enterprising villain chanced upon a place filled with wondrous truffula trees swomee swans brown bar ba loots and humming fishes bewitched by the beauty of the truffula tree tufts he greedily chops them down to produce mass market thneeds as the trees swiftly disappear and the denizens leave for greener pastures the fuzzy yellow repeatedly warns the once ler but his words of wisdom are for naught thus dr seuss teaches readers not to fool with mother nature but as you might expect from seuss all hope is not lost the once ler has saved a single truffula tree seed and fate now rests in the hands of a caring child