Gary Larson
Gary Larson
Gary Larsonis an American cartoonist. He is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth14 August 1950
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
The problem, Mr. Fudd, is that you've been having a sublimal effect on everyone in the factory. We're proud of our product, Mr. Fudd, and there's no company in the world that build a finer skwoo dwivuh. ... Dang! Now you got me doing it!
Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
It is a known fact that the sheep that give us steel wool have no natural enemies.
Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.
Hot oil! We need hot oil!... Forget the water balloons!
Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.
A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.
The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.
Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry'...
I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.
We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We...
When a charter school opens up, typically they are inundated with parents who wish to enroll their kids as well as with applications from public school teachers who wish to teach there, ... They have a tendency to grow very fast.