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

Fun Paid Tumbleweeds

Author:Janet McTeer

“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.”

Source: Mr. Monk in Trouble

“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.”

Thinking Wells I Can Remember Next Cat Supposed To Be Department Jason Alleys Downtown Allergic Taxidermy Back Alleys Winnipeg Tumbleweeds

Author:Guy Maddin

“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.”

Sometimes Moving Lazy Tumbleweeds

Book:Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011

Source: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011

“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.”

Growth Sacrifice Protect Blow Grass Shade Nurse Crops Legendary Prairie Tumbleweeds

Author:Antoine Predock

“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”

Earth Grief Growing Air Circumstances Depression Metaphor Despite Proportion Thrive Distress Detachment Allegory Thin Air Tumbleweeds

Book:The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas Of Depression