These quotes from Dr. Seuss are full of whimsy and wisdom. Read on for the best quotes from "Oh, the Places You'll Go" and more children's books by Dr. Seuss.

In the not-so-distant past of The Lorax, outside the walled city of Thneedville, there were once lush forests of Truffula trees as far as the ...

Though the fictional Lorax-inspired tree name won the student election, its ties to the Seuss estate prevented it from entering official use.

Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax is frequently taught in schools around Earth Day. But is it the best way to teach about today's changing climate?

We know how the story ends. Our narrator, called the Once-ler, stubbornly ignores the Lorax’s insistent warnings about his destruction of the bountiful and beautiful Truffula Trees.

This could mean that the Lorax had a symbiotic relationship with the Truffula trees, the study says. If so, the Lorax is less an environmental activist and more a creature in a threatened habitat.

“I speak for the trees,” the Lorax says, attempting to defend a soon to be blighted forest, its tufted Truffula trees chopped down and knit into hideous thneeds—“a Fine-Something-That-All ...

That is, until the last Truffula tree is gone, along with the land’s teddy-bearlike Brown Bar-ba-loots, Swomee-Swans, Humming-Fish and the Lorax, himself.

Dr. Seuss' character, the Lorax, is 50 years old this week. And his messages are more urgent and relevant than ever.

Call it fate or an unfortunate coincidence that Dr. Seuss' eco-parable marks its 50th anniversary just as the United Nations releases a report on the dire consequences of human-induced climate change.