Thanks for the latin. Teilhard de Chardin, if my memory is correct, went even further than the sacralization of living beings, by emphasizing that even inanimate matter contains the potential for life. Teilhard de Chardin might have said that each particle of matter is a bodhisattva.

I am not an astrophysicist, but I guess uninhabited stellar systems and galaxies without life contain the potential to evolve in the future into inhabited ones, when the temperatures and the chemistry will be ripe for the birth of life (abiogenesis) on the suitable kind of planet.