He believed Avery uncomfortable in and possibly incapable of handling the chaos of social interaction. But he believed Avery comfortable with and capable of confronting the chaos of nature. Avery could do so because of his “uncanny sense of what was truly important” and “imaginative vision of reality. . . . He had the creative impulse to compose those facts into meaningful and elegant structures. . . . His scientific compositions had, indeed, much in common with artistic creations which do not imitate actuality but transcend it and illuminate reality.” Years
