My Father once said that it is no wonder Dr. Seuss was able to create such imaginative tales with likewise illustrations, because California is so endemically diverse in flora and the sunsets can’t be beat – though Theodor Seuss Geisel didn’t arrive in La Jolla, California until much later in his life, it is true that some of his most famous and best-selling work was written there. It is easy to imagine the tale of The Lorax, for instance (about environmentalism and anti-consumerism), threaded from the erstwhile disappearance of the Orange Groves that covered the hills of Los Angeles or perhaps, inspired by the sight of neighborhoods populated with hundreds of attenuated and bushy-haired palms; and The Grinch (about anti-materialism)…does not need an introduction to where Seuss conceived that story; the ‘Great American Dream’ and its’ accessories was widely advertised in his time (though I estimate that 1957 was a different cultural entity and not approaching today’s cultural compass in its materialistic tendencies, so Seuss was clairvoyant). Either way, California has a nice bit of exceptional scenery.
NO SAINTS IN L.A. 
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