From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> To: Subject: Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:17:09 +0000 A, It was a true treat to have french brie in a japanese garden in paris with a person who appears to understand the nuances of gardening and its relationship to real life. Your kindness was greatly appreciated. I thought I'd attempt a modest return of the kindness by providing you my thoughts on our conversation. These thoughts are tailored , less like your bed sheets , but more like a bath towel. more warm encompassing and hopefully functional. I thought i might share some of my past experiences with some of the worlds most interesting thinkers that at 1, at least , have found to be beneficial. - before doing that however-, I was serious in statting that I owe a signifigant debt to Edmonde, his principles that he so generously shared with me 30 years ago has acted as a compass for my business life. Aesthetics are a core factor and i try to keep them in mind as I craft solutions to financial problems . Each problem has a myriad of solutions but few are truly beautiful. His ideas of the role of a " banker " was glorious. social responsibity from both the top down and the bottom up. - Banking businesses have become similar to systems that can only be compared to biology. or garden ecology. The entitites each have what on first blush appear to have many independent , flowers, or systems, that require energy balance and an overall health. Unlike the thinking of the past ,that was sculpted by the language of the industrial revolution . People and orgaanizations were described in machine like terms, In essence push the button here and something we already expect or know to happen , will occur. In math , we say the outcomes were determined, As systems become more complex, this no longer happens. We fertilize the tree as it looked unhealthy, but then it grew so large and thick that the moss underneath had no light and killed the plants. In biologi