Regions
There are 9 major regions of Queensland. These include South East Queensland, Darling Downs which includes the Granite Belt, Central Queensland encompassing the Mackay and Fitzroy regions, South West Queensland containing the Maranoa, Central West, Wide Bay-Burnett which includes the South Burnett, North Queensland, Gulf Country and Far North Queensland which includes the Atherton Tablelands. The Darling Downs and South East Queensland regions were the first to be settled. There are 15 bioregions found in Queensland, including Cape York Peninsula, Channel Country, Brigalow Belt and Mulga Lands.
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“In place of a world, there is a city, a point, in which the whole life of broad regions is collecting while the rest dries up. In place of a type-true people, born of and grown on the soil, there is a new sort of nomad, cohering unstably in fluid masses, the parasitical city dweller, traditionless, utterly matter-of-fact, religionless, clever, unfruitful, deeply contemptuous of the countryman and especially that highest form of countryman, the country gentleman.”
—Oswald Spengler (1880–1936)
“We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)
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—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)