Written at the age of 67 and published in 1971, The Lorax is the story of the ambitious Once-ler who builds a huge, thriving business at the expense of Truffula trees and the creatures who depend on ...

The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the ...

The Eiffel Tower was not, at its birth, universally admired. The fact that it was supposed to be temporary did not mollify the people who disliked it, chief among them the short-story writer Guy ...

She would defer to everyone else, saying nothing, but storing up every glance and gesture, silently skewering the bourgeois pleasantries in her mind, and later in a poem. I keep a complete copy of ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the New York Evening Mirror published Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” on January 29, 1845, it catapulted both the work and its author to instant fame.

Drought is bad news, but, in a surprising twist, a team of researchers discovered that drier times prepare young trees for harsh conditions in the future, Phys.org reported. The scientists — experts ...

Thimmamma Marrimanu is a banyan tree that has survived multiple cyclones and persevered to witness ... [+] half a millennium of human history unfold. Nestled in the remote village of Kadiri ...

Tree care professionals, or arborists, are highly skilled and knowledgeable about tree care and pruning and can assess and diagnosis pest issues. An arborist should be certified through one or more ...

Beth Calik, a recent transplant to Petersburg, Virginia, has discovered her passion for poetry. Calik's poem "The Shadows of the Lost Souls" reflects on the city's past struggles and hopes for ...