“Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species man acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world” (Carson, 1962). This quote from The Silent Spring shows that now the environment around us is no longer changing us, but we are changing it; just a glimpse of how we have reversed mother nature. Throughout the film The Lorax, the audience learns many ways of how man is negatively effecting nature’s peaceful nature. After a poor man takes over a vast forest of Truffula Trees, he eventually cuts them all down with his newly inventive machines. These machines release immense amounts of exhaust into the air, which also causes the birds in the area to die out or leave. Not only is there corrupted man-made exhausts in the air, but these nonrenewable Truffula Trees die out, taking away homes and resources for animals in the area (Seuss,