“You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.”

“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,You have to go places quite out of the way,You have to go places no others can get to.You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”

“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

“You have brains in your head.You have feet in your shoes.You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”

“But now," says the Once-ler, "now that you're here, the word of the Lorax seems perfectly clear. UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”