Harvest mouse may refer to members of two groups of rodents:
- Micromys from Eurasia, particularly the Eurasian harvest mouse (Micromys minutus)
- Reithrodontomys from the Americas
Famous quotes containing the words harvest mouse, harvest and/or mouse:
“A harvest mouse goes scampering by,
With silver claws and silver eye;
And moveless fish in the water gleam,
By silver reeds in a silver stream.”
—Walter De La Mare (1873–1956)
“Power lasts ten years; influence not more than a hundred.”
—Korean proverb, quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977)
“When out an old mouse bolted in the wheats
With all her young ones hanging at her teats;”
—John Clare (1793–1864)