Why carrier aircraft normally land from the stern

Why do aircraft land on a carrier from the stern rather than the bow?

The carrier normally steams forward into the wind to create wind over the deck, and its catapults and flight-deck systems are arranged around that operating direction.

Early carrier aircraft could use less standardized approaches, but a mature carrier is arranged around a consistent operating direction. The ship normally steams forward into the wind to increase wind over the deck and lower the aircraft's speed relative to the landing surface. That makes a stern approach the natural way to land while the carrier maintains useful forward speed. A carrier moving backward fast enough could theoretically reverse the arrangement, but catapults and other fixed systems make the established bow-to-stern flight-deck layout much more practical.