One day, Calvin wonders why people stay indoors. Another day, Calvin wants to spend all day in front of the TV. I thought kids were more decisive than that.
Panel #1 says it all. Even during the summer people live with the A/C going full blast and get in their air conditioned cars to go everywhere. Having lived in NC for over 30 years and now retired on northernmost Maine, I’ll take the cold any day over the oppressive heat of the Carolinas. When it gets really cold I add layers….when it gets really hot I can only get so naked and go out in public.
Well, I suppose all the luxury we indulge in today, at least where we are lucky enough to have those luxuries, do separate us from nature. However, I firmly believe if we had better caves and there weren’t stickers and bitey things in the grass we would be quite happy out in nature. But there are and we’re not. ..not sorry
Some don’t have to go outside even to use the car. They live in a house that connects to the garage that has a machine that opens and closes the door. They park in a ramp that has a walkway to the office building. They shop in a mall that also has a connecting parking ramp and connects to a food store.
We all feel nostalgic from time to time, but remember there was no such thing as “the good old days.” With some exceptions (mostly temporary setbacks) the world has been becoming a better and better place as time passes.
BE THIS GUY over 2 years ago
I like my meals cooked
codycab over 2 years ago
And since Calvin showed Hobbes the technology they have so far, Of course Hobbes will use all of it to his advantage.
Concretionist over 2 years ago
We’re here to find out why we’re here.
Charles Barr Premium Member over 2 years ago
Calvin might want to consider trading Hobbes in for something less threatening, like a hamster.
Randallw over 2 years ago
If outside is so great why did we invent inside.
Renatus Profuturus Frigeridus Premium Member over 2 years ago
Homo hominis lupus
Bilan over 2 years ago
One day, Calvin wonders why people stay indoors. Another day, Calvin wants to spend all day in front of the TV. I thought kids were more decisive than that.
californiamonty over 2 years ago
Hobbes just summed up Lion King’s “The Circle of Life”.
rentier over 2 years ago
We are here for finding God, to love and praise him all our life!!
Guilty Bystander over 2 years ago
“Turn on the lights,
Turn up the heat…"
I see a Don Williams song in the making here.
JudasPeckerwood over 2 years ago
Ha-ha, that won’t save you, Calvin.
Bullet Bronson Premium Member over 2 years ago
Nature, red in tooth and claw. Tennyson
The Reader Premium Member over 2 years ago
Hobbes, the feline philosopher.
Imagine over 2 years ago
From the point of view of a tiger, houses must be like ovens.
Alexander the Good Enough over 2 years ago
Whenever Calvin gets onto this dreary subject, Hobbes shuts him up by suggesting that he, Hobbes, might eat him.
Susan00100 over 2 years ago
Why, Calvin—we’re put on this earth to suffer.
After all, suffering builds character!!
MS72 over 2 years ago
It’s raining this morning. The dog wouldn’t go out to pee. I’m waiting her out…
A Hip loving Canadian... over 2 years ago
… and turn down Hobbes when he invites you for dinner.
Egrayjames over 2 years ago
Panel #1 says it all. Even during the summer people live with the A/C going full blast and get in their air conditioned cars to go everywhere. Having lived in NC for over 30 years and now retired on northernmost Maine, I’ll take the cold any day over the oppressive heat of the Carolinas. When it gets really cold I add layers….when it gets really hot I can only get so naked and go out in public.
Snolep over 2 years ago
Why assume there’s a “purpose”?
SquidGamerGal over 2 years ago
Ooh… His dad is gonna go nuke when he sees this…
dflak over 2 years ago
Mother Nature is neither hostile nor benign towards humanity.
Bruce1253 over 2 years ago
Life in the natural world tends to be, ‘Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short’ – Thomas Hobbes
SweetSinger over 2 years ago
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
sandpiper over 2 years ago
Ans so it would seem
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Well, I suppose all the luxury we indulge in today, at least where we are lucky enough to have those luxuries, do separate us from nature. However, I firmly believe if we had better caves and there weren’t stickers and bitey things in the grass we would be quite happy out in nature. But there are and we’re not. ..not sorry
Steverino Premium Member over 2 years ago
And even as humans, we still do this.
tripwire45 over 2 years ago
To devour each other alive. Sounds like politics.
Chithing Premium Member over 2 years ago
Ask a tiger question, get a tiger answer.
belgarathmth over 2 years ago
Watterson never ceases to amaze me with his philosophical insights.
Jogger2 over 2 years ago
Some behavioral science researchers are interested in a new hypothetical condition: Nature Deprivation Syndrome.
Jogger2 over 2 years ago
Some don’t have to go outside even to use the car. They live in a house that connects to the garage that has a machine that opens and closes the door. They park in a ramp that has a walkway to the office building. They shop in a mall that also has a connecting parking ramp and connects to a food store.
ilovecomics*infinity over 2 years ago
This is just absolutely hilarious.
WCraft Premium Member over 2 years ago
Considering this was probably drawn 3 decades ago, it’s only gotten worse.
cleokaya over 2 years ago
Very astute
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 2 years ago
Nature is nice, but not all it’s cracked up to be. (Hobbes’s line reminds of his ‘tiger food’ remark in different strip.)
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
A true tiger, like a true cat, kills its prey with a neck bite, before eating. None of this eating alive business.
mindjob over 2 years ago
Whatever our purpose was, it seems that time has passed
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago
And nothing has changed, we just devour each other in more refined ways.
yangeldf over 2 years ago
We all feel nostalgic from time to time, but remember there was no such thing as “the good old days.” With some exceptions (mostly temporary setbacks) the world has been becoming a better and better place as time passes.
Bocephus over 2 years ago
I do like my steaks rare
AndrewSihler over 2 years ago
Hobbs is kidding, of course. Canids and Ursids (possibly the same thing) devour their prey alive (yick!) but cats of all sizes kill their prey first.
Dr. Quatermass over 2 years ago
It’s hard not to lose touch with the natural world when it was -38F (not counting the wind chill) in International Falls, MN this morning.
Sailor46 USN 65-95 over 2 years ago
Tigers are tigers all else is tiger food.
AustinKniga-Bartlett over 2 years ago
Fair enough.
einarbt over 2 years ago
Typical human. Thinking that there is a purpose that is human centrist. Nature nicely summed up by a tiger.
globalenterprize1990 over 2 years ago
I praise His holy name for the good things He has done for me in my life. Amen.