This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and temper his mettle without such honour. There is deep in him a sense of the heroic quest; and our modern way of life, with its emphasis on security, its distrust of the unknown and its elevation of abstract collective values has repressed the heroic impulse to a degree that may produce the most dangerous consequences." - Laurens van der Post
"Now sit we close about this taper here, and call in question our necessities." - William Shakespeare