Facts
Lake Erie & The Lorax
You’re glumping the pond where the Humming-Fish hummed!
No more can they hum, for their gills are all gummed.
So I’m sending them off. Oh, their future is dreary.
They’ll walk on their fins and get woefully weary
in search of some water that isn’t so smeary.
I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.
– Dr. Seuss, The Lorax
The original words written by Dr. Seuss in The Lorax contained the last line about Lake Erie. But 14 years later, after the Ohio Sea Grant Program convinced Dr. Seuss the lake’s conditions improved, he agreed to omit the line from any editions in the future.
