From: Sent: To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> 19, 2013 11:17 AM 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 relati=nship 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=20 functional. I thought i might share some of my past experiences with so=e of the worlds most interesting thinkers that at I, at least, have found=to be beneficial. - before doing that however-, I was serious in statt=ng 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 l=fe. Aesthetics are a core factor and i try to keep them in mind =s 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 respons=bity from both the top down and the bottom up. - Banking businesses have become similar to systems that can only =20 be compared to biology. or garden ecology. The entitites ea=h 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 langu=ge 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 =ccur. In math , we say the outcomes were determined, As systems bec=me more complex, this no longer happens. We fertilize the tree as it looked unhealthy, but then it grew =o large and thick that the moss underneath had no light and killed the pla=ts. In biological tersm, to paraphrase