He thought it was "preachy and bossy," says Pease.
According to Geisel biographer Donald Pease, the author believed in the movement but didn't care for its rhetoric. Images of an oil-slicked river in Cleveland catching fire in 1969, the first Earth Day in 1970 and other events helped build the movement and put it front and center. Geisel began writing The Lorax at a time of growing concern about the environment.
Seuss) such as The Cat in the Hat and Green Eggs and Ham. With its mostly gray, scrappy, barren images, the story stood in sharp contrast to other books by Theodor Geisel (aka Dr. While it might be a children's book, The Lorax's ominous message of what happens when you harvest nature to death made it an icon of the environmental movement, spawning movie and stage adaptations not to mention a gazillion school projects.
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