1. Strip-mined land is land thrown away.

2. Basically, a strip-mining machine is a steam shovel, exponentially enlarged.

3. Not the imported store tomatoes that were strip-mined in Texas, but fresh garden tomatoes that taste like tomatoes.

4. Instead of adding a new layer to the palimpsest of the Great Plains, strip-mining destroys the palimpsest itself.

5. Reclaim marshlands; reclaim strip-mined land.

6. That leaves a strip-mined quality to the shores, which stretch for hundreds of feet down to the lake's murky, chocolate-colored waters.

7. The West has also been complaining for years that China has strip-mined foreign products for their technological content.

8. In recent decades, companies from Europe, the United States, and Australia have drilled for abundant oil and natural gas and strip-mined coal.