I think of Seattle as having a gray-green heart. It is a city shaped by nature, a city of snow-covered mountains, sparkling glaciers, and blue lakes. It has been called "America's Most Dynamic City," the "No. 1 City of the Future," and " America's Athens" by three major U.S. publications. But why has a town that is so far away from the nation's major power centers attracted so much attention? The answers may lie in Seattle's youthful energy and its scenery.
Seattle began as a wild pioneer town, and its energy continues in vigorous political activity and in the quiet creation of more millionaires per capita than any other urban area in the United States.Through six generations of gold seekers, lumberjacks, teachers, fishermen, airplane builders, and software inventors, we all share the feeling that living here is an adventure.
You would be hard-pressed to find a city as beautiful as Seattle. The Olympics and Cascade Mountains, Mount Baker and Mount Rainier, along with Lake Washington and Puget Sound, all offer spectacular views. The Space Needle pokes up over Queen Anne Hill, and the Lake Washington Ship Canal shimmers across the narrow waist of the city. Because of this magnificent natural landscape, people are both calm and yet energized as if they shared a feeling that Seattle is a place of unlimited possibility.