Quotes About Bhutan

Bhutan is a very serene country with an incredible history. It has an incredible group of great artisans.

The first country to adopt happiness as an official goal of public policy is the tiny little country of Bhutan in Asia near China and India.

World talks GDP but in Bhutan its about National Happiness. Am sure having India as a neighbour would be 1 of the reasons for the happiness.

body-print at southern Monkha Rock: Mon is an area in southern Tibet and Bhutan. The body-print is an impression of Padmasambhava's body in the rock.

It was the ruling King of Bhutan himself who, in the 1980s, set up a system that measured national advancement according to Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.

Grotesquely, there are cheerleaders for the king of Bhutan because of his claim that he seeks to increase gross national happiness, when Bhutan is one of the poorest and one of the more authoritarian countries in the world.

Article 9 of Bhutan's constitution says: "The State shall strive to promote those circumstances that will enable the successful pursuit of Gross National Happiness.

Seven years is a short time in the history of a country's democracy. But in this short time, people of Bhutan have developed faith in the institutions of democracy.

Respect for the natural world is fundamental to Bhutan's spiritual identity. More than half the country is off-limits to development or timbering. A whopping 50 percent of Bhutan's GDP comes from hydropower.

Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross Domestic Product. attr to Buthan's King Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Bhutan was the first nation to establish a permanent fund to finance the long-term protection of its native and rare flora and fauna.

By any definition, what happened in Bhutan in the years 1989-93 was ethnic cleansing. The Bhutanese government denies this and has refused to repatriate any of those forcibly expelled.

Bhutan is a beautiful place. High-end tourists love it.

Without global action on climate change, Bhutan's tourist and agricultural-based economy faces an acute threat from climate change.

Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. […] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward at breakneck speed here. Change happens very slowly. A grandmother and her granddaughter wear the same kind of clothes, they do the same work, they know the same songs. The granddaughter does not find her grandmother an embarrassing, boring relic.

Bhutanese believe that economic development should never come at the cost of their people's happiness. Therefore, in every trade deal the government enters into (for example, the sale of hydroelectric power to neighboring India), culture is valued more than cash.