J. Allen Boone Quotes

United States, Author
February 17, 1882 – June, 17, 1965.

J. Allen Boone (17 February 1882 – 17 June 1965) was an American author of several books about nonverbal communication with animals in the 1940s and 1950s. He wrote much on his friendship with Strongheart, a film star-German shepherd, who he credits with teaching him how to achieve deeper bonds through extrasensory perception, a "silent language" that can be learned.

The most effective way to achieve right relations with any living thing is to look for the best in it, and then help that best into the fullest expression.

J. Allen Boone
- Help
There's facts about dogs, and then there's opinions about them. The dogs have the facts, and the humans have the opinions. If you want the facts about the dog, always get them straight from the dog. If you want opinions, get them from humans.

J. Allen Boone
- Dog

We are members of a vast cosmic orchestra, in which each living instrument is essential to the complementary and harmonious playing of the whole.

J. Allen Boone
Never forget that every living thing has a particular and needed job to do in the universal Plan and Purpose.

J. Allen Boone
- Job
- Purpose
Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

J. Allen Boone
My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything.

J. Allen Boone
- Good
- Poetry
- Dog
If you would learn the secret of right relations, look only for the divine in people and things, and leave all the rest to God.

J. Allen Boone
- People
- God
- Rest