“In my neck of the woods non-conformity is what we do best.”

Individualism and Socialism (1933)

Source: The Hunger Games

Source: Shadow Souls

The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in &quot;Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. &quot;-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages )) <br class="br">Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229. <br class="br">A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled &quot;Do What You Can&quot; by &quot;Little Home Body&quot; in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): &quot;The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best&quot; but states &quot;I know not who said those beautiful words&quot; <br class="br">However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In &quot;The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home&quot; by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: &quot;&#x27;Dear Jean&#x27;, she said,&#x27;the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best&#x27; &quot; <br class="br">Attributed

Letter to Oskar Pollak (8 November 1903); cited from Briefe, 1902-1924 (1958) edited by [Max Brod]], p. 27<!-- New York: Schocken --> ; translation from Franz Kafka, Representative Man (1991) by Frederick R. Karl, p. 98 <!-- New York: Ticknor & Fields -->
Context: We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours? And if I were to cast myself down before you and weep and tell you, what more would you know about me than you know about Hell when someone tells you it is hot and dreadful? For that reason alone we human beings ought to stand before one another as reverently, as reflectively, as lovingly, as we would before the entrance to Hell.

As cited in The Forbes Book of Business Quotations (2007), Ed. Goodwin, Black Dog Publishing, p. 168, ISBN 1579127215
Post-war years (1945–1955)

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 16.

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841)