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| Send me some Seuss! |
"The more that you read,
the more things you will know.
The more that you learn,
the more places you'll go."
I remember going with my grandparents to a special Dr. Seuss exhibit at a museum in San Diego. I still have the commemorative poster.
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| (This is the book, my poster's in storage.) |
"Sometimes the questions are complicated
and the answers are simple."
In my high school chemistry class, we watched The Lorax at the end of the year. As a devout environmentalist, this is obviously my very favorite Dr. Seuss book.
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| The old Once-ler still lives there. Ask him. He knows. |
"I am the Lorax.
I speak for the trees.
I speak for the trees,
for the trees have no tongues!"
It is a sign of his lasting influence that he appeared on a US postage stamp...
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| Your Seuss is in the mail. |
"You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself
Any direction you choose."
...and has a memorial garden in his hometown of Springfield, Massachusetts.
"A person's a person,
no matter how small."
But I think his most enduring legacy is the set of values promoted through his life and writings--environmentalism, anti-consumerism, racial equality, anti-authoritarianism, anti-materialism, anti-consumerism, anti-isolationism and so many more. And all without hitting us over the head with a Moral.
"Kids can see a moral coming a mile
off and they gag at it."
We can all learn many lessons from Dr. Seuss and his work, but maybe the most important--for writers especially, but for dreamers of all kinds--is embodied in the art installation by John Baldessari at the entrance to the Geisel Library at UCSD.
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| "Read/Write/Think/Dream." |
What's your favorite Dr. Seuss book?
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