What I want more than anything in the whole world is to see a real living tree, growing in my backyard.
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The Once-ler All right, here we go. About to make a Thneed, about to change the world.
The Once-ler Check it out, guys... [looks around, noticing all of the animals are gone] Where did everybody go? [He shrugs, then grabs the tree by the trunk and drags it away toward his cottage]
The Once-ler Little did I know that by chopping down that tree I had just summoned a mystical creature as old as time itself. The legendary, slightly annoying guardian of the forest. The Lorax.
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