[To Ted] Because Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better...It's not.

Little did I know that by chopping down that tree I had just summoned a mystical creature as old as time itself. The legendary, slightly annoying, guardian of the forest. The Lorax.

I want more than anything in the whole world is to see a real living tree, growing in my backyard.

[Referring to her mural] Those are trees. Real ones. They used to grow all around here. And people said that the touch of their tufts was softer than anything, even silk. And they smelled like butterfly milk.

[He puts on a pair of work gloves and grabs a large axe] Alright, here we go. About to make a Thneed, about to change the world.

[referring to Audrey; to The Once-ler] Hey, she is not some girlǃ She's a woman in high school, and she loves trees. And I'm gonna get her one.

[admiring his first thneed] Now that's a thneed! Nothing unmanly about knitting. No sir!

You've got a beautiful town here, lots of fun stuff to occupy your short attention span. I can't think of any reason, you'd ever wanna go outside of town... again. Ever.

Check it out, guys. [looks around, noticing all of the animals are gone] Where did everybody go? [shrugs, then grabs the tree by the trunk and drags it away toward his cottage]