The Population of Trees in Seattle

There are approximately 4.35 million trees in Seattle. Photo by Charles Tansley
The answer to a question that first appeared in my mind in the late part of a long night: There are 4.35 million trees in Seattle. Wikipedia's estimate of humans in the city is just above 650,000.We live in a big city (people), but we live in an even bigger forest (trees). And as the great writer Jonathan Raban once pointed out to me, the forest dominates the day with its green leaves and the city the night with its