as-it-is, blue as blue, white as white ( my favorite quote )

On one of my nyoi ( Kotsu, shippei, the zen teaching stick with a mushroom-like shape), carved by Ron in Forest Row,

written by Marikosan's brush stroke:

青山自青山、白雲自白雲
"The blue mountains are of themselves blue mountains;
"The white clouds are of themselves white clouds."

Zenrin Kushu