Tumbleweeds Quotes

• The legendary tumbleweed is really a nurse crop that protects the growth of prairie grasses under its shade, and then sacrifices itself and blows away.

  Antoine Predock

  Sacrifice, Blow, Nurse

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• A lazy part of us is like a tumbleweed. It doesn’t move on its own. Sometimes it takes A lot of Depression to get tumbleweeds moving.

  Robert Bly

  Moving, Lazy, Sometimes

  Robert Bly (2013). “Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011”, p.220, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. It is tumbleweed distress that thrives on thin air, growing despite its detachment from the nourishing earth. It can be described only in metaphor and allegory

  Andrew Solomon

  Depression, Grief, Air

  Andrew Solomon (2014). “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that's only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That's Nature.It's a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.

  Lee Goldberg

  Eye, Animal, Rivers

  Lee Goldberg (2009). “Mr. Monk in Trouble”, p.70, Penguin

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• Well, I had a wolverine. It was supposed to be a cat, but Jason (Patric) is allergic to cats. I can't remember where I got it. Some back alley taxidermy, maybe? But I think I got it at The Bay taxidermy department. Downtown Winnipeg. Next to the tumbleweeds.

  Guy Maddin

  Cat, Thinking, Back Alleys

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• I did 'Tumbleweeds' for fun. I did it because I loved it and I hardly even got paid.

  Janet McTeer

  Fun, Paid

  "The Oscars? Oh no, not again..." by Anita Chaudhuri, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2000.

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