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We read our children stories starring elephants and monkeys and bears to teach them about nobility, curiosity and courage, to warn them against selfishness and stubbornness.

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I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course.

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I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people.

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I had hoped that going to Hiroshima would reveal something small, gritty, and precise to countervail the epic quality of historical accounts.

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Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin.

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Children depend mightily on animals for comfort, inspiration, imagination, and art. And parents have long recognized this.

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After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.

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We were a Seuss family. As a child, I read almost all of his books, but the one I loved best was 'The Lorax.'

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Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

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What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: December 5th, 1968

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