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)
“You are the harvest and not the reaper
And of your domain another is the keeper.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)
“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)