What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

Forster’s question challenges a purely aesthetic or “touristic” appreciation of nature. Stars, trees, sunrise, and wind are not valuable merely as distant spectacles; they matter insofar as they are integrated into lived experience—shaping attention, conduct, relationships, and the texture of ordinary days. The line implies a critique of modern life’s tendency to compartmentalize beauty (as something visited, consumed, or admired) rather than allowing it to inform daily habits and moral imagination. It also gestures toward Forster’s recurring concern with connection: the outer world’s grandeur becomes meaningful when it is inwardly received and translated into human life, rather than remaining an external backdrop.