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Faith can reclaim deserts as well as move mountains.

Wallace Stegner

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Wallace Stegner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1909
Born: February 18
Died: 1993
Died: April 13
Biographer
Environmentalist
Historian
Naturalist
Novelist
Writer
Lake Mills
Iowa
Mountains
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Faith
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Wells
Deserts
Well
Repose

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