Amber Waves of Grain: America's Farmland from Above

"In George Gerster's photographs, we're lying on our backs in the clouds, looking down at the land, a racially different view from the tractor seat or the Interstate. In these pictures, we're already floating. On our backs, in the clouds, we see constellations of rock, mythical topography, ancient shores, some shapes chosen and made by us, others prvidential, and the fragile shapes of farms, so earnest, naked, so eloquent of the hopes and labors of men and women. We look down to bless them." _ Garrison Keillor