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The Lorax is a children's book written by Dr. Seuss and published in 1971. [1] It chronicles the plight of the environment and the Lorax, the main character, who "speaks for the trees" and confronts the Once-ler, a business magnate who causes environmental destruction.
"Leaf by Niggle" is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien in 1938–39 [T 1] and first published in the Dublin Review in January 1945. It was reprinted in Tolkien's book Tree and Leaf, and in several later collections.
While the story is set in New York's Catskill Mountains near where Irving later took up residence, he admitted, "When I wrote the story, I had never been on the Catskills." [ 1 ] The Mountain Top Historical Society in Haines Falls, New York, has hosted a community reading of the story every year since 2019.
Daria, season 4, episode 3 is named "A Tree Grows In Lawndale". In season 1, episode 17 of I Love Lucy, Lucy schemes to get her husband, Ricky, into a play she wrote called "A Tree Grows in Havana", referring to Ricky's homeland of Cuba. A Super Grover segment in Sesame Street, episode #4224 takes place "where two trees grow in Brooklyn."
The act of decorating Christmas trees has its roots in the Germanic history of setting up "paradise trees." And once the British Queen and Prince had their extravagant Christmas tree showcased ...
A later Mormon speculation was that the words "may simply have been suggested by the swaying and soothing motion of the topmost branches of the trees, although…another authority is that Rock-a-bye baby and Bye baby bunting come to us from the Indians, as they had a custom of cradling their pappooses among the swaying branches." [8]
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