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 and/or mouse:
“The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is as when a migrating army of mice girdles a forest of pines. The chopper fells trees from the same motive that the mouse gnaws them,—to get his living. You tell me that he has a more interesting family than the mouse. That is as it happens.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)