Stanley A. McChrystal

If who you were was entirely based upon the position you were in or the headlines you got in the newspaper, or you had essentially subcontracted out your self-worth to the judgments of others, then you're going to be like tumbleweed. You're going to be blown.

American Footballer

Antoine Predock

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

American Architect

Edward M. Lerner

Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.

American Author

Bennett Miller

I am a tumbleweed. I don't have a company. I don't have a staff. I don't own anything - I've never owned a car or an apartment.

American Director

Tumbleweed commonly represents desolate or uncultivated places; imagine vast, empty deserts.

Desert Imagery

Tumbleweed symbolizes the Western United States; it can evoke themes of exploration and cowboy life.

Western Symbol

Tumbleweeds move when the wind blows; they're a vivid example of wind's power in storytelling.

Wind Movement

Figuratively, tumbleweed highlights awkward silence, especially after something meant to get response.

Silence Indicator

Tumbleweed can express boredom or inactivity, likening a place or moment to a deserted area.

Boredom Expression

Metaphoric tumbleweed doesn't involve real plants, but implies emptiness or a lack of events.

Non-Literal Use

 I don't know if you've ever weighed a tumbleweed, but they don't weigh much, so you can imagine the volume of material that we've picked up. My city has 6,000 employees, and none better than my solid waste department. We send our trucks out at the end of the day,

A practical way to help...

 next to another tumbleweed on offense I think for me it was problematic that not all tumbleweeds are interesting looking mmm and so I was really searching out