Indeed there were no 'priests' in the modern sense in the first couple of centuries anyway. Revelation comes in two volumes - the Bible and Nature, said Aquinas. The origin of the universe is associated, not with guilt or duty, but 'sheer joy'. The earth is not dead - all atoms are 'storms of activity'. Non-western peoples have known about the living earth for thousands of years.
Native peoples know the creation stories best.
Since science and religion split the cosmology lost its conscience. The whole universe is God's temple. We have destroyed the ozone layer not through ignorance, but through arrogance. Australians are very close to wilderness. There are three ways of responding to creation, according to Abraham Heschel - enjoy it, exploit it, or accept it with awe.