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:
“REST IN PEACE. THE MISTAKE SHALL NOT BE REPEATED.”
—Anonymous. Quoted in The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, Alan L. Mackay (1977)
“Why do precisely these objects which we behold make a world? Why has man just these species of animals for his neighbors; as if nothing but a mouse could have filled this crevice?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)