"Every American city is built on Indian land, but few advertise it like Seattle Go walking in the city, and you will see Native American images everywhere in the urban landscape."
- from Chapter 1 of Native Seattle: Histories from the Crossing Over Place, by Coll Thrush.
"Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old-clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystems."
from Homewaters; A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, by David B. Williams.