The Once-ler is a fictional character created by Dr. Seuss in the children's story The Lorax. The Once-ler is never actually seen in the story, although he does narrate it. In another instance, you see the bodies of three once-ler relatives singing about the "The once-ler in chief", but this scene is only in the animated movie. All the reader views is his hands, which are green and humanoid. His body is always concealed, giving the interactive illusion that the reader is the Once-ler. Throughout the course of the story, the Once-ler shows blatant disregard for the environment for the sake of profit. By the end of the story, he has reformed, but only after he has done severe damage to the ecosystem by clearcutting the Truffula trees and polluting the environment with industrial waste, forcing the Swomee-swans, Brown Bar-ba-loots, and Humming-fish out of the area. The Once-ler had removed the forest of truffula trees because when he moved there, he noticed their color, silky texture and their distinct butterfly milk smell, and decided he could make a new multi-purpose utility called a thneed. "It's a shirt. It's a sock. It's a glove. It's a hat. But it has other uses. Yes, far [ - ]

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