„Announced by all the trumpets of the skyArrives the snow, and, driving o’er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited airHides hills and woods, the river and the heaven,And veils the farm-house at the garden’s end.“

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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„No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it.“
— Frank Lloyd Wright
„The house was full of the sound of the gale. It was a winter northeaster, furious with wind and snow, and driving down against us from the dark and desolate North Atlantic and a thousand miles of whitecaps and slavering foam.“
— Henry Beston
„Hazel squinted. "How far?""Just over the river and through the woods."Percy raised an eyebrow. "Seriously? To Grandmother's house we go?"Frank cleared his throat. "Yeah, anyway.“
— Rick Riordan
„All I really want is enough to live on, a little house in the country… and a tree in the garden with seven of my enemies hanging in it.“
— Heinrich Heine