The light-chestnut soils are much more detrital than the chestnut varieties — not only at the surface but throughout the soil strata, except on sandy tracts.

From the mail-order car hoods that he first started painting and hanging in the late 1980s to evoke Ad Reinhardt or Mark Rothko (“They were really minimal, and I don’t think anybody got them,” he said), Mr. Prince progressed to appropriating heftier chunks of automotive anatomy, making sarcophaguslike sculptures crowned with air scoops, usually left with the appearance of being only partly primed and spackled with body-shop Bondo compound.

Unlike the static conception of nature or nurture, epigenic research demonstrates how genes and environments continuously interact to produce characteristics throughout a lifetime.

The rumbling of distant thunder echoed from the hilltop.