But the next day your mother disappeared, leaving a note that read, "As you will recall, I was raised by parents who believed in complete self-sufficiency and so I was never issued a social security number.
Left in crippling pain with severe nerve damage, she went in an instant from complete self-sufficiency to total financial dependence.
For 25 years, he lived in almost complete self-sufficiency in a small cabin in rural Montana, with no running water, heating or electricity.
It connotes a kind of complete self-sufficiency.
As a result of this and the exploitation of domestic deep water oil sources, Brazil, which for years had to import a large share of the petroleum needed for domestic consumption, recently reached complete self-sufficiency in liquid fuels.
Also think about long-term, capital investments, such as structural building materials, tools, etc. Keep in mind that no farm is an island: complete self-sufficiency is not a requirement of sustainable agriculture.
As the sinister and subtle Madame Merle suggests to her, in a conversation about the limits of the self, complete "self-sufficiency" is impossible.
What Ford dreamed of was not merely increased capacity but complete self-sufficiency.
There's a copy of John Seymour's updated classic The New Complete Book of Self Sufficiency on the coffee table.
By looking at your local area you and seeing gaps in self sufficiency, you can improve your own self sufficiency, which in turn helps to improve your city's sufficiency in reducing waste.
Lewis's book contributes meaningfully to the debate over self-sufficiency and capitalism in rural America.
