yet as they tore blindly through the wilderness , groping around for any kind of shelter and finding none , it became bitterly evident to them that , for all their desperate will to survive , they couldnt live as animals ; they had no pelt to warm and protect them , no claws with which to burrow into the ground , no wings to carry them swiftly to a place of safety a home , like the one theyd been so painfully forced to abandon .