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:
“For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“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)