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Like all children, I loved the wild and wacky world of Dr. Seuss.
As an adult, I had a greater appreciation for the creative art and a better understanding of the underlying messages.
My favorite? The Lorax. A sad tale of environmental destruction…. he spoke for the trees but no one was listening. 😰
So imagine my surprise when I read this article the other day.
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Fascinating.
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Read on…
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The truffula trees!
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They’re real!
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River's world..... 
Thanks for this. I’m going to tell my paleontologist friend about it, he’ll like it, I’m sure. You will, of course receive full attribution for passing this along.
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Thank you. It’s nice to share news that’s actually useful for a change.
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Dr. SEUSS was around when you were a kid! You’re still a baby!
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Tell that to my body.
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I would, but I haven’t had the privilege of meeting it.
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I know jack-all about Dr. Seuss. I think my brother (7 years younger) had Dr. Seuss books, I never looked at them. Recently I used a Grinch filter on a video for my granddaughters and told them I didn’t really know anything about the Grinch – I was told they laughed that Nonna didn’t know about the grinch…Interesting that there are few fossilized remains of ancient trees or even that tree species became extinct…tho there was the ice age…
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The Grinch is the most famous… I can’t believe you don’t even know that one. The original cartoon was 1966…
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1966 I was 20 years old – long past the time when I watched cartoons – never cared much for them even when I was little – animation is just not my thing – except for Coraline…I did know sorta what the grinch looked like and that it has something to do with Christmas? And there was a movie? There are stock Dr. Seuss phrases that I probably know – green eggs and ham – isn’t that Dr. Seuss? Don’t know the story behind that or the elephant in a tree? Or something about a kid and a hat? Eh…
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That was one of my favorites too – also Horton Hears a Who. We have trees similar to that one (honest) in SF Golden Gate park.
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Very cool!
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Such a fascinating tree
That umbrella canopy!
All those pointy little leaves
Surely rustled in the breeze
After resting in a glade
I would welcome back their shade
I’d be very much impressed
If they could hold a pterodactyl nest!
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That would be a mighty big nest…
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Somewhere, Dr. Seuss is smiling. Pretty cool trees!
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But is the Lorax smiling…?
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I love this so much! What a cool looking tree.
Dr. Seuss was a fave of mine and my kids too; I’ve saved ALL the books for future kiddos.
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They’re classic.
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