Merle Haggard Quotes

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

When I was a kid, we had airconditioning in the house... but we never used it.

I grew up in northern California, where it was consistently in the hundreds in the summertime. My dad didn't think he should have to turn on the air conditioning when we had a swimming pool in our backyard; it was our built-in air conditioner.

Last year, I made a refrigerator in my basement. And I needed to because I needed to figure how - you know there is no such thing as 'cold.' There is only less heat.

A nurse is to maintain the air within the room as fresh as the air without, without lowering the temperature.

Most nights, I'm happy to stay at home with a DVD and a bowl of lettuce.

I'm not really worried about the flashy stuff. I don't got chains and cars. I spend what I need to spend. It doesn't faze me.

Central heating is my vice - I have it on a bit too much as I am always cold. I try to make up for it in other green ways.

The nice thing about living in a semi-small town is that I can just go home and switch off. I go home now and I trim roses, rake leaves, wake up early in the morning and scare the raccoons off the lawn! It's kinda nice, that's the way I turn off, in Bakersfield, California.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I’ve done all the partying, I’ve done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

The car as we know it is on the way out. To a large extent, I deplore its passing, for as a basically old-fashioned machine, it enshrines a basically old-fashioned idea: freedom.

I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated).

We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.

Still, my dream in life is to come home and think of absolutely nothing. After all, you can’t think all the time.

We must start... rebuilding our cities around energy efficiency and human needs, rather than around the car and wasted energy.

In an age of iPhones and Playstations, it's great to see that somebody's still rocking the bus-on-a-string.

I live in the 17th century. I don't have a computer. I don't look at the internet. I use a cellphone, and that's about my only connection to the modern world.

It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.

I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

Recently, the administration has rejected conservation attempts like more accurate fuel mileage for cars and bipartisan proposals for reducing our dependence on foreign oil by a million barrels a day.

Americans are not gonna conserve. We're not gonna shift to smaller cars. We can't - we have big, fat kids.

No Joni Mitchell 8 track tapes in my car.

I don't know if this sounds bad, but I am set. I don't spend my money. I don't buy cars or have an expensive drug habit. The only thing I've ever bought with the money I've made is my house.